Alger Learning Ctr

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We help define each student’s goals and needs as we customize their individualized learning program, and use a variety of methods to identify and evaluate their learning skills, styles, and differences. Experienced teachers then work with both student and parents to design appropriate courses, suggesting and helping locate stimulating resources.

The Alger Learning Center & Independence High School was founded in 1981 to provide students with a creative educational alternative to public schools, while empowering them to take charge of their own lives and learning.

Alger Director John Lackey has nearly 40 years of experience in education. While setting up and teaching prototypical alternative classes and programs in a public high school in the 70’s, he envisioned the Alger Learning Center, establishing it in 1981, followed by Independence High School in the early 1990s. The writings and ideas of many diverse thinkers, philosophers, educators, and advocates for homeschooling and freedom in learning, such as Leo Tolstoy, A. S.

We provide students with various time record forms, which show subject area, time spent on each subject, and a brief description of the student’s response to materials. These records of the student’s independent progress should be brought to the campus at appointment times so teachers may review them in conjunction with learning contracts and continuous progress reports (which the student should fill out on a regular basis when visiting the classroom).

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