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 […]
CCA administrator touts engaging features of new LMS for students
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 06.06.2018
Dr. Joyce Good is the senior director of learning at CCA. This year, she is overseeing the content that will be part of edio, CCA’s new learning management system – which will go into effect next school year. Dr. Good shares some of her thoughts about edio in this week’s designer spotlight. What is your role with […]
CCA student uses Legos to teach basics of robotics
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 05.30.2018
The future of robotics is being built one Lego at a time. And CCA ninth-grader Alisher Aminov is teaching children how they can pave that road to tomorrow with colorful bricks. Through his nonprofit, Yellow Brick Robotics, the 14-year-old Lebanon resident teaches robotics to elementary-age children. Alisher doesn’t want his students to learn just the basics […]
CCA Makers Society takes off for bottle rocket challenge
By Commonwealth Charter Academy / 05.23.2018
CCA site coordinator Kene Akinbule doesn’t just want students to learn. He wants them to create and have fun while being educated. That idea was put on full display May 4 when students involved in the CCA Makers Society participated in a bottle rocket challenge at the West Philadelphia Family Service Center. When society member Jerome […]