Intrepid College Preparatory, Inc.
Programs
Description
Starting in fifth grade, Intrepid College Prep stresses literacy in the classroom with 180 minutes of literacy instruction daily and a minimum of 30 minutes of independent and accountable reading through Drop Everything and Read ("DEAR"). In middle school, prepsters read independently for another 40 minutes every day and are held accountable for doing so through daily checks of DEAR Logs, journals that provide opportunities for prepsters to respond daily to a variety of texts.
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Starting in fifth grade, Intrepid College Prep stresses literacy in the classroom with 180 minutes of literacy instruction daily and a minimum of 30 minutes of independent and accountable reading through Drop Everything and Read ("DEAR"). In middle school, prepsters read independently for another 40 minutes every day and are held accountable for doing so through daily checks of DEAR Logs, journals that provide opportunities for prepsters to respond daily to a variety of texts.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$5,000.00
Description
At Intrepid College Prep, we equip our students with the financial tools to establish discipline and lifelong habits that will have demonstrable impact in college and throughout their professional careers. Our financial literacy curriculum consists of personal finance, entrepreneurship and economics. Starting in fifth grade, we teach these concepts through the fundamentals of reading, writing, and math. For example, students are expected to master verbal and quantitative reasoning skills in each grade. Teaching prepsters to analyze the differences between owning and renting a home involves students reading passages and case studies about home ownership for comprehension, memorizing and using key vocabulary, calculating the costs of home ownership and renting and choosing a course of action (whether to buy or rent a home) based on several assumptions. Making choices about renting or buying a home is related to the central concept in finance theory - the time value of money. We return to this central concept over many grades so that prepsters learn how to determine, in today's money, the tradeoffs of buying a home now versus delaying the purchase of a similar property in the future. To simplify these concepts and expose prepsters to multiple ways of representation, we partner with organizations like Khan Academy, which operates a video library of over 3,000 videos in numerous subjects like financial literacy. We believe that mastery of these types of skills is required for college preparation. It is our high expectation that 100% of our students will complete a four-year college degree within 6 years of high school graduation and that every student will be able successfully manage their finances to plan for college, maintain financial wellbeing in college, and maximize professional opportunities after college.
Program Areas Served
None
$5,000.00
Description
At Intrepid College Prep, we equip our students with the financial tools to establish discipline and lifelong habits that will have demonstrable impact in college and throughout their professional careers. Our financial literacy curriculum consists of personal finance, entrepreneurship and economics. Starting in fifth grade, we teach these concepts through the fundamentals of reading, writing, and math. For example, students are expected to master verbal and quantitative reasoning skills in each grade. Teaching prepsters to analyze the differences between owning and renting a home involves students reading passages and case studies about home ownership for comprehension, memorizing and using key vocabulary, calculating the costs of home ownership and renting and choosing a course of action (whether to buy or rent a home) based on several assumptions. Making choices about renting or buying a home is related to the central concept in finance theory - the time value of money. We return to this central concept over many grades so that prepsters learn how to determine, in today's money, the tradeoffs of buying a home now versus delaying the purchase of a similar property in the future. To simplify these concepts and expose prepsters to multiple ways of representation, we partner with organizations like Khan Academy, which operates a video library of over 3,000 videos in numerous subjects like financial literacy. We believe that mastery of these types of skills is required for college preparation. It is our high expectation that 100% of our students will complete a four-year college degree within 6 years of high school graduation and that every student will be able successfully manage their finances to plan for college, maintain financial wellbeing in college, and maximize professional opportunities after college.
Program Areas Served
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