No hay campanas suenan siempre en el Met. Los cerca de 300 estudiantes de esta escuela pequeño alto en el lado sur de la ciudad al parecer acaba de saber cuándo ir a clase.

¿Cuál es fresco, y es importante tener en cuenta, porque habla de cómo la vida en The Met-parte de una familia a nivel nacional Big Picture escuelas que ofrece exclusivas opciones académicas como prácticas locales comerciales y programas de mentores, es muy diferente a la típica escuela secundaria experiencia.

Creemos que el verdadero aprendizaje tiene lugar cuando cada alumno es un participante activo en su educación, en su curso de estudio es personalizado por maestros, padres de familia y tutores que saben de él o ella también, y cuando la escuela basada en el aprendizaje se mezcla con las experiencias externas que aumentan el interés del estudiante. En un país obsesionado por el "test-score responsabilidad", se promueve "un estudiante a la rendición de cuentas del tiempo."

La Idea

En 1993, Stanley Goldstein, fundador y ex director ejecutivo de CVS Pharmacy, pidió a los médicos y Dennis Littky Washor Elliot, director y subdirector, respectivamente, de la Escuela galardonada Thayer Superior de New Hampshire, para llegar a Rhode Island para ayudar a mejorar la educación en el estado. Unos meses más tarde, Theodore Sizer, presidente de la Coalición de Escuelas Esenciales de la Universidad Brown en Providence, invitó Littky y Washor ser los primeros becarios superiores en la recién formada Instituto Annenberg para la Reforma Escolar.

One Student at a Time: A Deeply Personalized Public High School

by Big Picture Founders Elliot Washor and Dennis Littky

Perhaps more than any public school in America, the Met School insists on educating "one student at a time." Each student develops a unique curriculum based on strong personal interests and the school's demanding academic learning goals. Every student in the Met's first two graduating classes has been accepted to college and/or vocational school.

Met students spend two days per week at internships that they select based on their interests. Across four years, one student interned with an engineer, a judge, a choreographer, and a marine biologist. He completed many personalized projects such as co-directing a musical and developing water quality systems in Narragansett Bay.

• 100% of students from our pioneer graduating class were accepted to college
• Students graduating in 2008, 2009 and 2010 had similar success
• 95% of Met Sacramento students have an active internship
• 260 students currently enrolled at the Met Sacramento, and growing!
• We are currently remodeling our campus. The $7.5 million remodel, will embrace GREEN technologies. Three of our students are directly involved in the remodel via their internships.
• 9-12 grade Met students start taking advantage of our dual-enrollment partnership with the Sacramento City College. A typical Met graduate earns 40 college units!

Please Note: You must be dis-enrolled from your current school before becoming a Metster!

All application materials should be sent to:

The Met
810 V Street
Sacramento, Ca, 95818
Office (916) 264-4700
Fax: (916) 264-4701

"Here, the advisors come in early, they stay after, they visit you at home, and they talk to your parents. You know them because they make themselves known."

--Seetha a recent Met Sacramento graduate.

"My advisory are my family. They know me and I trust them."

--Aaron, Met Sacramento class of 2013.

Advisory

Starting in 9th grade, students are organized in advisories, groups of roughly 20 students from the same grade level and led by an advisor (or teacher), who stays with them for all four years of high school. The Advisor, unlike a traditional teacher, guides each student's learning in every academic area and helps the group develop a strong sense of trust and teamwork. She/he is a coach, pushing students to achieve their greatest academic potential as well as their character and leadership skills. Throughout their four years together, an advisory becomes very close and its members often refer to it as a family.