Welcome to TLC at Linlee

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At The Learning Center, the teachers and staff are dedicated to making sure kids understand five simple steps.

1. Know how to dream.

2. Understand what their personal dreams are.

3. Eventually scratch reality with their dreams.

4. Develop sustainability, so they can bring their dreams to fruition despite setbacks, knockdowns, and discouragements.

5. And to always vault the process that takes them there… which always includes building strong relationships.

TLC Connects Kids to Kids

Students assume responsibilities for each other and help one another. Examples:

· High school students help guide the middle school students.

· Trips to elementary schools, to enlighten younger students on just how important school is to their respective futures, are made often.

· Students learn a sense of self-confidence by being able to ask questions that relate to the curriculum, via video conferences.

·Among other places, our students have already made connections with children outside of the US.

Congressman Hal Rogers' Policy Luncheon at the Marriott

TLC Connects Kids to Teachers

In order to have the students connect to the teachers, teachers have to follow a few guidelines.

· They approach subjects holistically. They see the big picture and show how their subject intersects the real world.

· They champion rigor, knowing kids thirst for challenging activities.

· They demand accountability from their students.

· They stimulate kid’s mind and encourage curiosity.

· They provide kids immediate descriptive feedback about their performance and subject grasp.

TLC Connects Kids to Their Future

Students strive to shine in our Employability Matrix. It’s our classroom/workplace management system, and it holds the students to six important responsibilities similar to those they would have with a job.

· Arrive in class on time.

· Bring the necessary supplies/materials to class.

· Interact with their teachers and peers in positive ways.

· Use appropriate language.

· Remain on task—be productive.

· Leave respectfully when class is over.

TLC Connects Kids to Community

Here at TLC we are strong believers of encouraging our  kids to be involved in the community as a whole. A few connections we have already made:

· MSTC students from Dunbar High School collaborating with our students in constructing a science and history museum.

· UK Science Department inviting our students to their laboratories for instruction, to learn about STEM, to network, and to find opportunities for further study.

· Lexington-Fayette Country Health Department and the University of Kentucky Nursing Department developing with our students effective drug/smoke cessation program.

· Tracy Farmer Institute providing opportunities for our students to test watershed variables and design experiments that will influence community practices.

· Project Green - PRIDE and the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Organization providing our students with collaborative outdoor learning opportunities.

· Kids Teaching Kids (The Arlington Project)

· YMCA providing special health and fitness education.

TLC Connects Kids to the Real World

The common problem that many students have nowadays is that they don’t see what the stuff they learn in school will be used in the real world.  At TLC, we relate our curriculum to the real world as much as we can.  We also try to construct knowledge through project-based activities. In the end we strongly believe in the notion that we equip real people for real life and that in the pursuit of making knowledge really exciting, there is no substitute for the real world.

TLC Connects Kids to Technology

Teachers at our school are ahead of the technological curve meaning that they are developing lessons that will utilize hand-held and internet resources to better connect with students who use these devices. So basically instead of trying to fight the distractions, they try to “get with it” and incorporate it into the curriculum.

Our museum and the outdoor learning center will also provide students with valued learning opportunities to connect what they’re learning in the classroom with interactive resources that will help them better understand just how relevant the core content information is to the real world and to life. Besides the wonderful students and staff that attend this school, the museum is certainly our pride and joy here at TLC because it is completely constructed (ground up) by us…  the students!

Andrew at the 9th Grade Awards Banquet

All information compiled by Kiara Root, a TLC 2011 graduate.

Class of 2011!