Renaissance Secondary School
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Renaissance Secondary School serves students in grades 6-12 in Castle Rock, Colorado. The school's mission is: Through authentic, integrated learning experiences, Renaissance will empower students to become modern learners who are critical thinkers and problem solvers, communicators, collaborators, and creative innovators who contribute to the world around them.
The Renaissance model utilizes best practices from research-based methods of Expeditionary Learning, Design Thinking, and Project Based Learning to achieve deeper levels of understanding of state content standards and phenomena in the world around them. Featuring deep studies of rich academic topics that cut across all disciplines including the arts students tackle complex, real-world issues with greater engagement and achievement. This kind of personalized learning emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity --skills that colleges and employers alike agree are essential to success.