Sacramento New Technology High School is a small

charter school A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of auto ...

based on the rings of New Tech Network's New Technology High Schools. It is part of the

Sacramento City Unified School District Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) is a public school system in Sacramento, California. With 47,900 students in 81 schools, it is the eleventh largest school district in California. Founding Harvey Willson “H.W.” Harkness w ...

and is located in South Sacramento.

History

Sacramento New Technology High School was established in 2003 on the site of Thurgood Marshall High School, an alternative high school during the 1990s. Prior to Thurgood Marshall, the site was home to Argonaut Alternative High School during the 1980s.

Affiliation

The school a

New Tech Network New Technology High School is a secondary school located in Napa, California. It focuses on project-based learning, student-centered culture, college and workforce readiness, and technology integration. It is the flagship school of the New Tech ...

(NTN) school. NTN is a school development organization, that helps public schools implement the "New Tech Model". This model is based on three key elements: #

Project-based learning Project-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. Students le ...

(PBL) - This is the heart of the instructional approach. Teachers facilitate students' use collaborative methods of learning. # Trust, Respect, and Responsibility - In this type of cultural environment, students decide how to allocate their time and team roles as opposed a traditional school setting where teachers are more involved in a student's

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. # Smart use of Technology - With a one-to-one ratio of

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to student, the New Tech Learning Platform facilitates students and faculty to share projects online, collaborate, communicate, and conduct research. There are currently dozens schools across the nation that have adopted this model. Sacramento New Technology High School, or SNTHS, regularly hosts administrators and faculty from other public schools to demonstrate the "New Tech Model". There are tours of the school conducted by student ambassadors.

The School and Curriculum

In 2010/2011 SNTHS had an estimated 350 networked computers. 90% are

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-based, and 10% are

Apple Mac The Mac (known as Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple Inc. Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and ...

OS. The Apple computers were implemented for the 2010/2011 school year in an effort to give students the opportunity to develop more

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-oriented skills. As of 2021/2022, Every student is issued a personal Chromebook, which the previously mentioned statistics do not account for. Along with the conventional math,

language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

, and

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courses found at other

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s, this effectively expanded the current

digital media Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...

course offering. SNTHS also houses a fully digital

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music studio A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large enou ...

, a state of the art multi-media and multi-purpose room, and

interactive whiteboard An interactive whiteboard (IWB), also known as interactive board or smart board, is a large interactive display board in the form factor of a whiteboard. It can either be a standalone touchscreen computer used independently to perform task ...

s in every classroom.

References

External links

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New Tech Network
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