Note: The information in this profile represents SY2013-14 unless otherwise indicated.
School Overview
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School Description
St. Therese Catholic Academy is the second site of the Phaedrus Initiative, a project funded by Seton Education Partners to revitalize inner-city Catholic schools by leveraging blended learning. Leading up to the 2012-13 school year, St. Therese Catholic Academy had undergone a dozen years of decline. In order to reverse this trend, St. Therese Catholic Academy reopened in the 2012-13 school year not only with the first blended-learning curriculum in a Catholic school based in the northwest, but also with a new name. St. Therese Catholic Academy serves a diverse student body population which consists of children from across 25 zip codes and at least 75 percent minority students; as the school improves and demand from wealthier students increases, St. Therese Catholic Academy has promised to reserve 50 percent of its slots for low-income students.
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Blended Learning Program
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Program Model
Program model: Station Rotation
Model description
Students rotate on a fixed schedule between computer stations in the classroom and direct instruction with the lead teacher. Classroom sizes are kept at around 30 students and while half of the class works online, the other half receives small-group instruction with the teacher.
Because the blended-learning program at St. Therese is still evolving, teachers in the 4th- through 8th-grade classes have more autonomy in how they wish to construct the blended-learning experience and can choose to implement half-day rotations or models similar to the Flex where students work primarily on the computer and rotate out for small-group sessions with the teacher. Consequently, not all classrooms at the school follow the same Station Rotation model.
Contact Information
Name: Matthew DeBoer
Title: Principal, St. Therese Catholic Academy
Website: www.stthereseseattle.org