Each Wednesday at 11am Obridge Academy's Head of School conducts a Q&A with new and existing students to provide an orientation and answer questions. Join us each week to meet a new student or connect with fellow students. The meeting is open to all existing students, parents, and teachers. If you are part of the Obridge Academy family, join us at this time!
Join our online Google Community for parents and students here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110372859748543834780 This community offers a place for you and your family to participate in online learning interaction with other students from Obridge Academy. Stay tuned, more information will be posted to this site as more people participate.
We hear daily from parents who have had enough. They have had enough of their kids being pushed or abused verbally, picked on or insulted. In most cases a school district is helpless, or cannot help, or perhaps for other reasons, does not help. Bullying can be a complex topic, and it takes courage to overcome it at every level. At Obridge Academy, we look at films like Bully and we are shocked with the rest of the nation of what humans are capable of doing to each other. There is a solution. Send your child to an online school. It ......
Need to reach a teacher? Connect on Skype: A list of teacher Skype IDs: ms_mclaurin_obridge – High School English ms_goodson_obridge – Middle School English ms_cruz_obridge – High School Math ms_congleton_obridge – Middle School Math mr_cammarota_obridge – High School Science mr_congleton_obridge – Middle School Science mr_spencer_obridge – High School Social Studies ms_dilger_obridge – Electives mr_ruisi_obridge – Computer Science ms_mayo_obridge – Spanish mr_benohoud_obridge – French ms_bauer_obridge – Student Services ms_yang_obridge – LMS Support
This summer, you can earn half a high school credit through a four-week, intensive Mandarin Chinese course at Friends Academy. Check out the details here.
(This is the first in a weekly blog entry. The next one will deal with 21st century learning skills.) Dr. Thomas Kuhn, then a professor at Harvard University, coined the term paradigm shift in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn claimed that science did not exist on a continuum, but rather underwent a shift that changed a fundamental approach and a way of thinking about something. This change is perhaps best described as a volcanic eruption that alters a landscape, or reveals a feature never before seen, rather than the gradual change that occurs over time. The ......
Confucius said the superior man puts all his energy into everything he does... On Wednesday, armed only with his favourite grey T-shirt and goofy smile, Mark Zuckerberg held court in one of China s most prestigious universities for half an hour. In Mandarin. So this son of a New York dentist gets a gold star or a red flower, as they are called in China for not only mastering the internet by the age of 30 but also somehow finding time to learn the world s most difficult language. “Hello everyone,” he said, to whoops of excitement from the audience (who, ......
Join us for a virtual open house on Monday, September 16, 2013 at 7pm Florida time - Join us for our fall open house - meet our teachers online, our faculty, administration, and other students. Welcome back to school! Please register for Obridge Academy Fall Open House on Sep 16, 2013 7:00 PM EDT at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3267450943060562944 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Meeting hosted by: GoToWebinar® Webinars Made Easy®
"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."-Stephen R. Covey Being a teenager in high school is a time of transition. For the first time in their lives kids get a taste of what it really means to be an adult by having to juggle their school work, part time jobs, and budding social life. Many teens who go to an accredited online high school like the flexibility their online schooling gives them, but you can't enjoy your flexible schedule and free time if you don't know how to utilize them. If you're having trouble finding ......
