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Irondequoit High students showcase project-based pilots, art pathway at board study session
Summary
Students at Irondequoit High School presented project-based work — including a podcast, a Dante unit, an egg-drop engineering challenge and an AP Psychology caregiving simulation — while teachers described a new art portfolio pathway and mentoring programs tied to the district’s Portrait of a Graduate.
The WEST IRONDEQUOIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of Education’s March 5 study session featured student presentations and teacher-led summaries of pilot projects at Irondequoit High School.
Students described a range of culminating projects: a podcast built around themes in a class novel, letters written from historical perspectives for a humanities unit on Rome, an engineering “egg-drop” design challenge that applied momentum concepts, and an AP Psychology assignment that tasked students with caring for a surrogate infant (an egg) and keeping a reflective photo journal. One student identified herself as Kylie…
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