![]() For more information or to begin the enrollment process online, please visit ResponsiveEd® is a non-profit corporation that operates more than 70 tuition-free public schools throughout Texas and Arkansas, including Premier High Schools®, ResponsiveEd Classical Academies, Founders Classical Academies®, Quest Academies, iSchool High®, and iSchool Virtual Academy of Texas. Parents are encouraged to call 97 to speak to an enrollment specialist or schedule a tour. “iSchool of Lewisville students learn the distinctions between participation as a way of life and contribution for the good of others.”Įnrollment is open for sixth through 12th graders in what has become a place for educational ideas, innovation, and intelligence balanced with an active social environment geared toward developing lifelong friendships with other outgoing young scholars. “This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to receive a higher level of education,” says Head of School Alan Wimberley, Ed.D. ![]() The collegiate atmosphere and mastery-based system will prepare motivated students for higher education and a competitive job market. Specialized courses include culinary arts, merchandising, media arts, photography, NASA partnerships, video game design, robotics and many more. In addition to the core curriculum subjects and state-of-the-art electives, this well-rounded campus experience offers competitive sports such as soccer, basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball, track, cheerleading, and others. With expansive academic, elective, and extracurricular offerings, the open-enrollment public charter school can now serve even more middle and high schoolers throughout Lewisville and the surrounding area. ISchool of Lewisville, a tuition-free ResponsiveEd® school, is a dual-campus college-preparatory community unifying the campuses previously known as ‘STEM Academy of Lewisville’ and ‘iSchool High Entrepreneurial Academy’. He is also the co-author of The Invisible Element: A Practical Guide for the Human Dynamics of Innovation./ EIN News/ - LEWISVILLE, Texas, J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE). Wilhelmi received his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The students started by creating a plan in calculus and are now putting that plan into action in their engineering class. Wilhelmi’s freshmen are working on building children’s play houses that will be donated to shelters for abuse victims in the local area. Through this project-based approach, students learn to process ideas across different disciplines and problem-solve rather than testing memorized formulas.Ĭurrently, Mr. ISchool High STEM students learn by working on cross-curricular projects. That is what they are learning now,” said Mr. They will all have to work with people and be able to communicate effectively. “All of them will have problems to solve in their careers, whether they go into engineering or not. Wilhelmi believes students should leave his class with a way to attack problems they encounter in the real world. My iSchool students are more equipped now than the kids I would hire out of college,” he said. They knew how to get answers from the back of the book, but they were not equipped. “The kids I used to recruit out of college didn’t know how to work in teams, didn’t know how to think or solve problems. In his classroom he emphasizes hands-on-learning because he believes it gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge. He knows the challenges employers face with finding qualified employees. Wilhelmi joined the staff at ResponsiveEd’s iSchool STEM campus he worked as an engineer for McDonell Aircraft, ITT Electro-Optical Products Division, Frito- Lay, Inc. I teach students the difference between evolutionary and revolutionary ideas,” said Mr. “As a country we need to restart the innovation engine that gave us the leads we have. ![]() By the time the semester is in full swing, engineering teacher Gary Wilhelmi has fixed this while also getting them ready to work on the big projects that will be in their future. When most students enter Engineering 1 at iSchool High STEM in Lewisville, only a handful of them have ever held a screw driver. ![]()
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