Academics Overview

• Through the blended model that lies at the heart to the KCS experience, students engage and own their academic development more fully and completely than in the traditional 19th century education model. Students take ownership of their learning by, on a daily basis, assessing where they feel they need support and where they feel their strengths lie. This leads to the development of a full and comprehensive awareness of themselves as thinkers and learners. Known as “meta-cognition”, this academic self-awareness is perhaps one of the most important tools a student can develop prior to entering college.

• Additionally, because students must take it upon themselves to organize their academic day and make critical time allocation and prioritization decisions, they develop remarkable time management and task accomplishment and completion skills. While done in concert with their Learning Coach in the younger high school years, by senior year, a KCS student will have a confidence, a focus, an ability to organize and an effectiveness that will serve him or her well in the new environs of any college or university setting.