Turn Your Graduation Gap Into A Graduation Cap: Independent Study Courses Line The Way
Are you currently a high school student? There are many reasons students have difficulty trying to stay on an established in-person school schedule. The reason isn’t as important as the challenge to find a solution. There will be many obstacles over your lifetime, potentially slowing your journey toward graduation, but … Read more
Blueprint Education and The Barbell Saves Project Partnership: Growing In Strength
Blueprint Education and The Barbell Saves Project are proof that when education and students meet movement and life-changing purpose with adults who care, incredible things happen! Crossfit Discovery It began in early 2021, when Blueprint Education CEO Mark French decided he needed a fresh way to boost his physical strength … Read more
Blueprint Takes Agile to the Digital Learning Annual Summit!
Have you ever wanted to foster collaboration, choice and engagement, iterative growth and mindset, responsive visible feedback and reflection, and relationship building with staff, students, and administration in person and even virtually in your classroom, school, or district? It was this very question that we began to answer when Blueprint … Read more
Visible Feedback and Reflection
Why Visible Feedback and Reflection? From our life experiences, many of us have learned that taking “good” feedback and learning from it can help propel us forward toward our goals. From behavioral research, we know that visible feedback and reflection play an invaluable role in shaping learning and behavior by … Read more
Trust
Why Trust?For our students, Trust is the FOUNDATION…Trust allows you to fail… and failure is the only way to grow! You need Trust for authentic communication and relationships.In the realm of Agile in Education, Blueprint defines the trust compass point as the foundation to an Agile environment, gradually shifting control … Read more
Support Staff Summer
Imagine the sounds of the summer in the Arizona desert… Crickets and birds chirping, coyotes howling like excited fans, children laughing and splashing, and also… Keyboards quietly clacking, calendar reminders pinging, and voices kindly chatting, because… …The quiet summer months are the perfect time for the behind-the-scenes projects that make … Read more
Teacher Appreciation
Why Teacher Appreciation? Do I even have to ask?Teachers do the most difficult and important work in the world, and in May, we all get to show our gratitude. As the school year approaches its end, teachers are working their hardest to help students succeed during that final push, all … Read more
Avoiding April Foolishness: Overcoming Team (Teen) Toxins
Why Team (Teen;) Toxins? Perhaps the better questions are: What ARE team toxins and why should we be proactive in overcoming them?To an Agilist, the idea of Team Toxins comes from the research of Dr. John Gottman and his observations of the Four Toxic Communication Patterns adapted for team communication … Read more
March Madness: Agile Games and Fun Tools
Why Fun & Games in Learning? It’s pretty obvious to children of every age that learning is hard work, and hard work is better when we’re having fun. In fact, researchers agree that games and play increase student engagement from K-12 through higher education, improving learning and achievment outcomes through … Read more
F.O.R.C.E.
Why FORCE? Undeniably, the forces of nature impact our lives, from climate to catastrophe and all the little things in between. To an engineer, Force is the very foundation of movement and dynamics, as forces are external agents of change, pushing and pulling on one another. To Agilists, FORCE is … Read more
Commitment in the New Year
Why Commitment? In welcoming a brand new year, many of us are making commitments to ourselves: to improve, to be healthier, to act with intention, to grow in some way. Discipline and commitment to goals and each other may very well shape the upcoming year for many of us, our … Read more
End of the Year/ Holiday Retrospectives
Why Retrospectives? As we approach the end of the semester and calendar year, reflection is a useful skill for students to learn and utilize, a tool to curb vacation learning loss. Moreover, reflection is key to students understanding not only WHAT they are learning but HOW they learn best. Agile … Read more
Isos Technology Lunch and Learn Event
As the Hope High School and Hope High School Online students pulled up to the business plaza and approached the glass-paned building, they were unsure of what exactly they would be walking into. Greeted with warm smiles and an abundance of swag, the Isos Technology team made the students feel … Read more
Strength Before Power Can Be Key To Being an Online High School Student
Performance One of the most important features of sports performance is maximal muscular power. Muscular power isn’t just bounding at maximum speed, or throwing something with maximum velocity. It also includes the strength to decelerate the body against gravity, or mass coming toward the body. Injuries don’t happen from the … Read more
VIP – A Day On The Ranch
The VIP Program Connects Students To A New World On Friday, April 29, 2022, the VIP program (which stands for value, independence, and purpose) provided by Blueprint Education, transported 22 students from Hope High School and Hope High School Online, to a wonderful outdoor retreat experience at the Flying E … Read more
We Are Now Ready For Takeoff
Agile in Education: How Hope High School Embraced the Journey and Learned to Fly When Krissyn Sumare was offered the position as the next Hope High School Principal in 2014, she was ecstatic, despite the negative circumstances surrounding that school. Things like violence, drugs, poor attendance, and low proficiency rates … Read more
Calling All Online High School Arizona Students – Look Where You Want To Go, Not Where You Don’t Want To Go
Calling All Online High School Arizona Students – “Look where you want to go, not where you don’t want to go.” It’s a lesson I learned the hard way on a mountain bike ride several years ago. Staunchly independent, raised with a zero-tolerance level for making mistakes, crashing into boulders … Read more
The Last Day of Online High School
The problem with the last day of online high school The problem with the last day of online high school is, a month before it happens we enter this anxiety-ridden state like it’s the last day of everything we’ve ever known. The last day of school anxiety causes us to … Read more
Four Ways to Get Everything You’ve Ever Wanted While At Hope High School Online
If you were to design your life, what would you want? (This is where you pause to visualize your perfect life.) If you get anywhere near business development podcasts, or self-help books, or even therapy, this is probably a question you’ve pondered many times. I’m sure I have journalled at … Read more
Becoming – It’s Part of Your Journey of Being an Online High School Student
“Set a Goal so high you can’t achieve it until you become the person who can.” If you have ever set a goal so high you can’t achieve it, and then worked for it day after day, day after day, day after day, you know it’s not about the Goal. … Read more
Question Addiction As An Online High School Student
Asking questions. It’s my new obsession. Asking questions. It’s my new obsession. Every day I crave its rhetorical fix. When I ask a question, answers start to seep through my head, causing a steady dopamine drip. Some people say dopamine (the reward hormone) is literally like a drug, so I … Read more
Blueprint Education's mission is to inspire students to make better choices and be champions of their own learning in an alternative, non-traditional school environment. We want to provide opportunities, tools, and choices that help students take ownership of how they learn as well as create more engagement in the learning process itself.
Students learn in a variety of ways and Blueprint can blend different methods of delivery that is best suited for each student. These educational options are meant to help inspire students towards a more rewarding and purposeful future. A future of many opportunities that they discover and of which they can be proud!
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