CareerClusters

=**Career Clusters**= = =

Citadel Group schools, such as the Academy School, have organized learning around the following thematic, high-interest, career clusters such as the following:

Professional Science
 * Biomedicine
 * Forensic Science/Research
 * Environmental Science

Advanced Communication
 * Multimedia
 * Telecommunications/Cisco
 * Information Systems
 * Marketing and Advertising

Engineering Design
 * Engineering/Design
 * Chemical Engineering
 * Product Development

Global Issues
 * Law and Public Policy
 * Global Economics & Finance
 * Homeland Security

Each career cluster typically serves multiage students. Throughout their tenure at SWN schools, students will rotate through each of the four career clusters.

At Citadel Group schools, student learning emerges from real world learning, including thematic, community-based, high interest projects, which center on career clusters. Supported by a computer learning system, personalized, web-delivered curriculum and resources will enhance and draw on particular skills, abilities, and learning styles. The separate subjects are still taught, just not as separate classes. Students learn important, standards-based content through the hands-on, project-based work that they do. Scope and sequence is determined by when skills and knowledge are needed for the complex projects, not on which chapter in the text they are studying. Instead of test and quizzes, their work becomes the evidence of the learning. There is still lecture and reading, but only in support of learning by doing and working on the projects. Projects come first, then the occasional lecture, reading, or computer-based instruction, as needed to complete the project.

The Schools We Need Project
//Because some students need more than direct instruction.//

The Schools We Need Project is a joint project of the [|Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning] at the [|University of Maine at Farmington]