{"id":6684,"date":"2015-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/true-voice-and-choice-at-kettle-moraine-perform\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T19:47:48","slug":"true-voice-and-choice-at-kettle-moraine-perform","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/true-voice-and-choice-at-kettle-moraine-perform\/","title":{"rendered":"True Voice and Choice at Kettle Moraine Perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11959 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/KMPerform-300x78-300x78.png\" alt=\"KMPerform\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/>Can you envision a high school without courses, semesters, or trimesters? A school where students build their schedules every four to six weeks, choosing seminars, workshops, internships, projects, and the like that are interesting to them?<\/p>\n<p>A school where students are not moving through a schedule created for them nine months before the academic year even begins?<\/p>\n<p>What if instead you take the competencies from math, science, reading, writing, and the like, and then put them together into interdisciplinary learning opportunities that students can choose?<\/p>\n<p>What if students were so knowledgeable about their learning that they could add competencies to existing seminars so they were meeting their learning goals, or creating seminars to co-teach with school faculty so their fellow students can meet their learning goals?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I have not only envisioned it but I finally got to see it in action last week when I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmsd.edu\/KMPerform.cfm?subpage=1213268\" target=\"_blank\">Kettle Moraine Perform<\/a> in Wales, Wisconsin, a 170 student performing arts high school inside the larger 1400 student legacy high school. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmsd.edu\/KMPerform.cfm?subpage=1223647\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more on the model<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Abby, our student tour guide, was a senior with enough credits gathered to graduate. But instead of leaving high school, she decided to stay to make herself more competitive for the college of her choice. This is a wonderful model of true voice and choice.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to going back.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/going-big-in-cedar-rapids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Going BIG in Cedar Rapids<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/a-conversation-with-buddy-berry-in-eminence-kentucky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">A Conversation with Buddy Berry in Eminence Kentucky<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/case-study\/colorado-takes-another-step-forward-with-a-new-school-in-denver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Colorado Takes Another Step Forward with a New School in Denver<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Nina Lopez is an independent consultant, based in Boulder, CO. Nina provides facilitation, strategy and innovation design services to private foundations, non-profit and government entities in Colorado and throughout the country to help them incubate new initiatives, develop a shared vision and a clear strategy for achieving individual and collective goals. <a href=\"www.ninalopez.com\">www.ninalopez.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mapsvg_location":""},"legacy_category":[416],"issue":[368,371],"location":[86],"class_list":["post-6684","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","legacy_category-case-studiesschool-models","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field","location-wisconsin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>True Voice and Choice at Kettle Moraine Perform - Aurora Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/true-voice-and-choice-at-kettle-moraine-perform\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"True Voice and Choice at Kettle Moraine Perform - Aurora Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Can you envision a high school without courses, semesters, or trimesters? 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