Parents have learned a lot about how to best meet their children's educational needs over the past few years. What is the best environment. What is the best time of day for maximizing comprehension. What are the resources that best equip their child.
Regardless of what type of school your child is in, there are more options today than ever.
Brent Goldman, CEO of Xceed Preparatory Academy, joins us this week to discuss a flexible personalized learning model that he created that addresses learning and student success in a way that is counter-intuitive to many of us but necessary for some students who need and crave a different model that focuses more on achieving the ultimate goal of learning through the child's best academic and personal schedule.
Brent's takeaway? "You don't have to be satisfied with the status quo."
Learn more about Xceed Preparatory Academy here.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Understanding Xceed Preparatory Academy
8:00 - Teachers as mentors, models, and motivators
10:05 - Diversity in student population
14:10 - Students included in academic planning
17:20 - How all students, regardless of finances or need, are able to attend such a program
20:25 - Meeting academic needs and resources for student success
27:30 - Parent engagement at Xceed
31:30 - Student socialization and program extracurriculars
36:00 - Contact Brent https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentgoldman1/
36:25 - Brent's golden nugget
Learn more about your host!
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