Heroes Chronicle Archive

Session 1, Week 4 After a hero accepts the Call to Adventure, Crosses the Threshold, and enters the Special World, a critical component on their journey is to find their allies, helpers and mentors. As we enjoyed week 4 in our "Special World" at CHOICE, we found many...

Session 1, Week 3 All systems go! A statement made popular in the 1960s when referring to missiles and other vehicles launching into space. It has now come to mean a state of readiness for immediate action. CHOICE is full of systems. Systems which allow the heroes to...

Session 1, Week 2 In the Hero's Journey, after a hero accepts a Call to Adventure, they Cross the Threshold and enter the Special World. Whether this is a hero's first year at CHOICE, or they have been here many years, we are all beginning a new Hero's Journey. Thus,...

Session 1, Week 1 What Makes a Culture Flourish? An important question for every community to discuss, whether that community be a country, a city, a family or a school. Each year CHOICE chooses an overarching question. The overarching question is a question that we...

Session 7 Week 4 Someone recently commented that the most important lessons from a "school experience" are what we take with us, after we have forgotten everything 🙂 With that in mind we asked heroes a few questions on Thursday. Their responses are our final post of...

Session 7 Week 3 Throughout my life I have heard conversations that “nothing important happens in the last weeks of school” or that “there is no point in going.” This is 100% not the case at CHOICE. Quite the opposite in fact. Truly meaningful work, discussions and...

Session 7, Week 2 Throughout survival camp heroes used survival books to help them accomplish some of their outdoor challenges. Their book included topics such as knot tying, sewing, using knives and axes, starting fires, purifying water and many more. If heroes were...

Session 7, Week 1 While our whole school is built around passion driven learning, all three studios enjoyed Passion Projects as their Session 7 quests. What were the Spark Studio heroes passionate about this week? Here are just a few answers: Triangles! After creating...

Session 6, Week 5 Denouement = the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together, and matters are explained or resolved... a perfect way to describe the last week of Session 6. In the Spark Studio we closed this session...

Session 6, Week 4 We've all heard the idiom 'practice makes perfect'. But what if practice doesn't need to, or even isn't supposed to make perfect? What if perfection is not our goal, but the goal is actually the process of practicing? This was impressed upon me as I...

Session 6, Week 3 One day afterschool some Fire Studio heroes were trying to understand the difference between a guide and a teacher. Some didn’t even know what a lecture was. A teacher lecturing is like a parent spoon feeding a child. The parent decides what makes it...

Session 6, Week 2 Research suggests that a common human need is not to be agreed with, but simply to be heard. At CHOICE we focus daily on finding and sharing our voice. Heroes have diverse opportunities every day to be heard. And yet, sometimes they still don't feel...

Session 6, Week 1 Welcome Session 6 and Spring! The arrival of both together brings new questions, explorations, quests, challenges, outdoor fun, energy and excitement! (jump to Fire Studio) (jump to MS Studio) In the Spark Studio this session we will be exploring...

Session 5, Week 6 Every type of school has its own term or quarter or session. Every term, quarter or session has its own traditions at the end, typically tests and finals. CHOICE (and Acton's at large) are no different. However, instead of tests and finals, we have...

Session 5, Week 5 Two months ago Marcus came in and shared his passion with the heroes (voice impersonations). He asked who had a passion that they wanted to share. The heroes formed themselves into similar interest groups and began brainstorming. The Middle School...