Serving Our 7th-12th Graders
Our open and collaborative workspace offers students a unique learning space to maximize their time in school. Students can enjoy each other while also growing in their communication skills, study skills, leadership skills, work ethic, character, and more. This is another way we help them succeed in ways that are more important than a test score!
Students become known by their teachers, assessed based on them as people, mentored to be successful as people in whatever context they find themselves, and enjoy a place to belong and grow. Northern is a place that prepares them for the real world while allowing for the mistakes and growth that each student needs to be prepared for the real world.
We are hyper-focused on providing a whole-student education where the teacher maximizes their time in face-to-face interactions while offering experiences for the student to grow and develop within. These experiences help students become excited about lifelong learning, equipped to educate themselves, work well with others, practice the formal skills for further education, apply key soft skills to all parts of their lives, and to be curious!
What kind of students is NDA seeking to cultivate?
Lifelong Learners
Self-Motivated
Value Integrity
Team-Oriented
Self-Confident
Prepared for the Next Steps
7th-12th Grade - Offering Skills and Opening Eyes
Classes that Introduce and Equip
We want our students to be prepared for the new world we live in. To help them, we offer classes and learning opportunities that open up new avenues of interest and skills they may not have known about before.
We offer CPU programming courses, tech skills, a variety of work-related electives, new topics and career introduction, and much more! It's a combination that allows students to discover practical skills alongside traditional classes. We offer study halls and flexible enrichment hours so that students less homework and the opportunity to get instant feedback from their teachers on their assignments.
Students looking for a new start are allowed to succeed and flourish in safe environment. Excelling students are challenged and allowed to excel in whatever subject they are interested in.
Junior and senior high students enjoy electives they've selected on Discovery Thursday for Jr/Sr and the other three days focus on core classes in an interactive format.
NOTE: Junior/Senior High Students participating in our Homeschool Discovery Thursday will take these classes at our Howard City campus.
What will your student remember?
What are the ways our middle and high school experience sets us apart?
This is a great question! There is so much that goes into what we offer our 7th-12th graders. In summary, we offer a comfortable, relaxed, and cultivating place for your student to grow and develop in these pivitol years while making lasting memories which will propel them into who God has intended them to be.
The Heart of the Problem
Most people look back at their middle and high school years and remember the friendships and experiences that helped shape them. Will your child have those experiences where they currently are? For students today many cannot wait to move on from these years. Many students today face extreme bullying, the desire to stand out or be cast out by their peers, a school environment that brings anxiety and stress. These realities are heartbreaking and also contribute to an educational space that has more barriers to success than avenues.
The Heart of NDA
Here at NDA our staff dive into the student culture here to protect it and ensure that students develop lasting friendships and build experiences that they will look back on with gratefulness and joy. We are fully involved in resolving conflict, we do not tolerate bullying, and hold students accountable for what they do here at NDA. We focus on a growth mindset in their studies helping them discovery their talents, giftings, and passions. Our goal is to help cultivate students that have self-confidence, problem-solving skills, greater self-knowledge, and the practical knowledge sutied to their future real life.
We graduate students with a diploma, and more importantly, equipped for their next steps into the workplace or to further their education. Through self-discovery, the mastery of important life skills, and the pursuit of the right education for their future students will have experiences that they can look back on with gratefulness.
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