How to Teach Your Kid Time Management During the School Year
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 08.29.2018
All parents want their children to excel academically. However, parents also want their children to enjoy childhood. Children should learn to achieve a balance between schoolwork and fun activities. Time management skills will help them as they advance through school and prepare for future careers. Follow these tips to teach time management for kids and […]
How to Set Up a Workspace for Online Students
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 08.22.2018
Families experienced in online learning know that a key to success is separating “home time” from “school time.” Naturally, the line will blur sometimes, but the stronger the separation, the fewer the distractions that divert a child’s attention from schoolwork and academic growth. Creating a workspace for online students devoted exclusively to school time is […]
Tips and strategies on how to succeed in cyber school
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 08.15.2018
Students can have the same success in an online school as in a brick-and-mortar school, and they can have more opportunities, too. Students can take small steps to increase their engagement and make the most of their schooling. They can create a daily routine and find ways to help them stay organized. Parents can get […]
New learning management system enhances personalized learning for CCA students
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 08.08.2018
As we prepare for the start of the 2018-19 school year, excitement continues to build around edio, CCA’s new learning management system. CCA teachers and administrators have been sharing their thoughts on how the new platform will impact our cyber school. This week, we interviewed Jeanne McCarthy, Director of Elementary Curriculum at CCA, to get her […]
CCA student makes lifesaving invention for children
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 08.01.2018
Every year in the U.S., 36 infants die in hot cars. Because the summer months are the hottest, they inevitably bring the highest numbers of these incidents. CCA student Madison Lucey, 15, of Pike County, saw these facts as unacceptable and decided to do something about it. “I was watching one news report, and the […]
CCA student pursues his dream of playing baseball in college
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 07.25.2018
Ever since Yvonne Stewart can remember, her son, Wayne Stewart Jr., was an all-around athlete. From golf to bowling to rowing to basketball and baseball, Wayne has always had a knack for sports. Today, Wayne is a left-handed pitcher for the Philly Area Black Sox travel baseball team in Philadelphia. Their games have become a […]
Incorporating Drones Into STEAM Education
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 07.18.2018
New advances in technology offer educators many new avenues through which to demonstrate theoretical knowledge, as well as practical life skills, to students. Under the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) approach to education, educators can equip their students with the knowledge and know-how needed to excel in our modern world. Studies have […]
Cyber educators discuss benefits of CCA’s new learning management system
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 07.04.2018
CCA’s learning management system will be new and improved next year. Edio, which stands for education for individualized outcomes, is the new LMS that will be implemented in the upcoming school year. In this episode of the WeAreCCA podcast, Joyce Good, senior director of learning, and Joanna Shelley, director of secondary curriculum and instruction, share some insight […]
CCA student finds balance managing school and her passion for ballet
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 06.27.2018
From balancing her high school course load to balancing on her toes as a trainee with The School of Pennsylvania Ballet, Lucia Erickson, a senior at CCA, knows a little something about trying to find balance in all aspects of her life. Lucia was inspired by her older sister to start dancing at the age […]
RWDC team prepares CCA graduate for college success
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 06.13.2018
During his time as a member of the Real World Design Challenge team at CCA, Joseph Patterson took the “real world” part of the engineering competition seriously. Team members learned to draw on each other’s strengths, and his was making sure that their entries passed muster as practical devices workable in real-life settings. In 2018, the team’s […]