T. Boone Pickens with Pam Quarterman, Oak Hill Academy Executive Director, and student Mackenzie Aduddel
Oak Hill Academy Celebrates a New Paradigm for Science
Plans Unveiled for the T. Boone Pickens Science Learning Center
The first science curriculum designed specifically for students with learning differences is being developed at Oak Hill Academy in collaboration with the University of Texas (UTD) Science Education Department. A natural correlation exists between the way students with learning differences gather information and the way science is best experienced: hands-on, experimental and sensorial. This will form the basis of an innovative curriculum created exclusively for children who learn differently.
Plans for the T. Boone Pickens Science Learning Center include:
- Collaborate with UTD consultants and graduate students to create a Living Learning Lab, where innovative education strategies can be developed, tested and modeled.
- Integrate technology to enhance the curriculum.
- Renovate the school to accommodate classrooms, technology, lab equipment, as well curriculum specialist and graduate students.
Oak Hill Academy teachers have already begun training with Dr. Cynthia Ledbetter, Head of the Science/Mathematics Education Department at UTD. She and her graduate students will be instrumental in creating the new curriculum.
For more information about Oak Hill Academy and the Assessment Center at Oak Hill Academy, visit the website at www.oakhillacademy.org.
