Addressing Math Difficulties at FCA

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Addressing Math Difficulties at FCA

America’s education system suffered a terrible blow when schools switched to virtual learning throughout the covid pandemic. While Frederick Christian Academy was able to put policies and protocols into place that allowed them to open for in-person instruction as of the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, FCA has not been immune to the effects of covid learning loss. This year we chose to try a pilot program with our seventh-grade students using the IXL Math online learning platform to see if IXL may help to support all our students with their math achievement scores. Correlational analyses on the data showed that math achievement scores correlated use of the IXL program with increases in the students’ math achievement.

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A Look At Standardized Assessments

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A Look At Standardized Assessments

Our average percentile score of 70 shows that the average student at FCA performs better on the Iowa Assessments than 70% of their grade-level peers. That’s pretty good! However, while it is nice to know that our students often out-perform their peers in other schools, the value of the Iowas is in the information it provides that allows us to better our program and meet the individual needs of our students. 

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A 3D View of Athletics

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A 3D View of Athletics

Dr. Jeff Duke in his book 3D Coaching discusses three dimensions of coaching: fundamentals, psychology, and heart. The athletic program at Frederick Christian Academy uses a similar three-dimensional model of building athletes as we seek to build our athletes understanding of the basics, to encourage them to grow in Christ-like character, and to glorify God.

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