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NAF YOP Workshop 2006: Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida

Miami-Dade County schools are focused on the creation of SLCs and the implementation of wall–to–wall Academy programs for high school students. Key features of this SLC program include: multi-year groups for ninth- through twelfth-grade students, alternative scheduling, academic teaming, project-based education that includes mentoring, job-shadowing, service learning and capstone projects, career development and individualized career and education plans for students.

Workshop teams from Booker T. Washington and North Miami Beach SHS took part in the YOP workshop, creating a recruitment video for their programs. Booker T. Washington, a wall-to-wall school, created a project on behalf of their four Academies: Entrepreneurship & Finance, Foreign Languages & Humanies, Engineering & Applied Technology, and Health, Wellness and Social Justice. North Miami Beach used the workshop to create a communications video that will help to introduce a new pathway program: the Education Academy, a dedicated SLC created in partnership with Nova Southeastern University.

View Curriculum & Instruction, a case study video documenting faculty members from two of Miami-Dade County high schools as they complete the YOP workshop program and comment on the Academy model and Secondary School Reform. >

Workshop Videos

  • Booker T. Washington Sr. High School

  • Instructors: Howard Bloom, Tony Renesca, Sheria Blackmon, Elaina Rivas

  • Watch video >

  • North Miami Beach Sr. High School

  • Instructors: Joseph Ramirez, Shawna Hutchinson, Jonathan Finkel, Tracey Chambers

  • Video coming soon >

  • BTW & NDM Contact

  • For more information on the NAF Academies and pathway programs at Booker T. Washington and North Miami Beach, contact:

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