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Innovation Design Entrepreneurship Academy
Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA)*
Launched 9th grade implementation in 2015-16 and expanded by one grade-level per year
- School Website: IDEA Home Page
- Twitter: IDEA_at_Fannin
- Instagram: ideaatfannin
- Facebook: Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Academy -IDEA
- Transformation and Innovation Vertical Team
- Grades Served: 9-12
- Year(s) of Implementation: 8
Principal: Raymie Venable, ravenable@dallasisd.org
Assistant Principal: Andrew White, andwhite@dallasisd.org
What We Do:
Powering possibilities of future DFW Changemakers with Passion, Empathy, and Purpose
How We Do It:
We believe that all students deserve a one of a kind education based on their strengths, interests, needs, and skills. We consider this a part of self discovery. We accomplish this through personalized learning, project-based learning, experience learning, and service learning.
Key Components of Our Personalized Learning Model:
✓ One-to-one student mentoring program
✓ Internships in a field of each student’s choice
✓ Student-paced lessons and personalized instructional pathways
✓ One-to-one student laptops to support adaptive instruction
✓ Next Generation Skills rubrics
✓ Student-led goal setting
Proudest Accomplishments:
✓ Achieving the highest District exam scores among all comprehensive high schools in English, World Geography, and Algebra II
✓ Outscoring district averages in Algebra and English I EOC state exams
✓ Securing more than 50 student internships
✓ Partnering with nearly 200 mentors to support students
Powering possibilities of future DFW Changemakers with Passion, Empathy, and Purpose
How We Do It:
We believe that all students deserve a one of a kind education based on their strengths, interests, needs, and skills. We consider this a part of self discovery. We accomplish this through personalized learning, project-based learning, experience learning, and service learning.
Key Components of Our Personalized Learning Model:
✓ One-to-one student mentoring program
✓ Internships in a field of each student’s choice
✓ Student-paced lessons and personalized instructional pathways
✓ One-to-one student laptops to support adaptive instruction
✓ Next Generation Skills rubrics
✓ Student-led goal setting
Proudest Accomplishments:
✓ Achieving the highest District exam scores among all comprehensive high schools in English, World Geography, and Algebra II
✓ Outscoring district averages in Algebra and English I EOC state exams
✓ Securing more than 50 student internships
✓ Partnering with nearly 200 mentors to support students
*The Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy
or IDEA is not affiliated with or endorsed by IDEA Public Schools.
The marks IDEA is used with the permission of IDEA Public
Schools.