Health & Fitness
How Open Enrollment and Flexible Scheduling Enhances Education
Flexibility is a curious word when it comes to discussing the academic and educational goals of students. Mainstream and traditional schools, both public and private, have long held the idea that daily life is filled with rigid scheduling of classes and activities that are intended to enhance a student’s life and academic resume, but often times leaves the child feeling over-scheduled and thus overwhelmed.
Halstrom Academy is a niche private school that offers both open enrollment and flexible scheduling in a safe and nurturing environment. Allowing flexibility of class times in an educational institution provides students the opportunity to pursue passionate interests outside of school, freedom to suit their own needs, and allows them the time to have more hands-on involvement in the classroom. Giving students the chance to come out of a cocoon of fixed scheduling, has been shown to generate more student engagement and an increase of subject interest.
Students who have a career or athletic focus, such as actors, models, gymnasts, equestrian riders, pro-surfers, musicians and performing artists, often times cannot attend mainstream schools due to conflicting auditions and training that arise throughout the year.
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Schools with flexible scheduling, such as the type found at Halstrom Academy, allows students to set their class times that will most benefit their dreams. Coupled with our open-enrollment policy, a student can seamlessly transfer mid-semester without hurting their academic status.
These student athletes and performers easily find a home at Halstrom Academy, which not only offers class times that fit around their training, it also utilizes high-tech options such as Skype and Facetime via iPads, to connect a traveling student to their teacher during instruction times, thus eliminating attendance issues.
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In the end, it’s beneficial to explore all types of educational settings with the understanding that where your student is happiest, will ultimately foster the greatest learning environment for him or her.
We welcome you to visit our trendy LA campuses located in Woodland Hills, Brentwood and Manhattan Beach. Fully accredited: WASC, UC, and NCAA.
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