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Lake Ridge expands New Tech to middle school

CALUMET TOWNSHIP | Lake Ridge Community Schools will expand its successful New Tech model at Calumet High School to the middle school this fall and eventually to the three elementary schools.

Lake Ridge Superintendent Sharon Johnson-Shirley said the New Tech model, also known as project-based learning, enabled the district to improve its academic scores and graduation rate last year, effectively removing the high school from probation.

Shirley said adopting the New Tech model of education required a reinvention of teaching practices, learning methods and leadership strategies.