Nurturing Potential, Sustaining Support
833 Young Scholars is an academic program designed to find and nurture advanced potential at an early age in students from historically underrepresented populations providing learning experiences that strengthen basic skills and require students to think and apply knowledge at higher, more complex levels. 833 Young Scholars is committed to seeing and meeting the needs of students who prefer more complex and creative ways of thinking.
The primary goal of 833 Young Scholars is to raise students’ personal expectations, support family involvement, and prepare students for more challenging and rigorous coursework in later grades. 833 Young Scholars continues to develop and evolve based on the changing needs of our students.
833 Young Scholars lessons encourage and reinforce the following thinking skills:
Divergent Thinking:
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Students use brainstorming techniques to develop a variety of possible solutions to given problems.
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Students practice using the characteristics of divergent thinking: fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration.
Convergent Thinking
Visual/Spatial Thinking
Evaluative Thinking
To learn more about 833 Young Scholars, please contact Colleen Redmond at 651-425-6212 or credmond@sowashco.org.