Welcome

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    Dear Parents and Students,


    WELCOME to the 2020-2021 school year - sure to be the most interesting school year yet! 

    I am very excited to explore, energize, enrich and expand with you.  My hope is that you will be empowered to seek and find answers to conceptual and critical questions and problems that drive our community and our world.   We will go on a quest to inquire, discover and develop innovative projects.   This curriculum design will give you an opportunity to explore content on a deeper level. Project-Based Learning honors the various synapses alive and well in our brains.  With subject matter at the core of our exploration, you will be given great latitude for discovery and demonstrate these in final, creative, individualized unique learning projects.   We will create Projects inspired by focused Driving Questions;  the products you create will possess real-world applications with a sense of real-world audiences, and you will present them when you are finished.  We will formulate Project Contracts to guide us through our Explorations, monitor our progress through Project Calendar and Project Logs, and find time and ways to conference one-to-one so I can guide you the best way I can.

    Project based learning (PBL) will be the style of enrichment and below are the main goals of the CCUSD's Creative Inquiry Class.

    • You will work within collaborative groups, learning interdependence with like-minded peers, each bringing your own gifts to the group.
    • You will investigate, research, and explore real world problems within an area of interest.
    • You will create products that might provide solutions to a problem, demonstrates new investigations, designs new products out of unique challenges, increase awareness of controversial topics;  the possibilities are endless.    

    During this whole process, you will practice and strengthen valuable 21st-century skills such as decision making, collaborating, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation.

    Students: I am so glad you’re here!   

    Parents:  Thank you for sending your students to Creative Inquiry!

     

    Mrs. Macris

     

     

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Project Based Learning

  • Project-Based Learning honors the various synapses alive and well in our brains.  With subject matter at the core of our exploration, students will be given great latitude for discovery. As they navigate and create Driving Questions related to various curriculum-related subjects, students will hone and then apply their skills in final, creative, indivudalized unique learning projects. 

    Project based learning (PBL) will be the style of enrichment for the Creative Inquiry Gifted and Talented program in the Cave Creek Unified School District. Within a PBL classroom, you will see students learning new content through a method that encourages choice, is challenging, and fun! Below are the main goals of the CCUSD's Creative Inquiry Class.

    • Students will work within collaborative groups, learning interdependence with like-minded peers, each bringing their own gifts to the group dynamic.
    • Students investigate, research, and explore real world problems within an area of interest.
    • Students will create a product that provides a solution to the problem, explains the problem with possible solutions, and/or increases awareness of the problem. 
    • Students share their solutions with a real world audience. 

     During the Project-based learning process, the students will practice and strengthen valuable 21st-century skills such as decision making, collaborating, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation.