Teaching & Learning

To acquire the skills necessary for College and Career Readiness, Lake Ridge New Tech Schools partners with the New Tech Network & over 350 schools to provide students with deeper learning experiencess to prepare them for life beyond high school. We have 4 pillars that guide our model.

College & Career Readiness Outcomes: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools is committed to preparing all students for postsecondary success.
Supportive Culture: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools is committed to providing a safe, supportive, and caring school community in which students and teachers take ownwershp in the learning experience and school environment.
Meaningful Instruction: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools is committed to providing instrucational approaches that are authentic, require complex thinking and problem solving, through relevant and real-world instructional experiences.
Purposeful Assessment: Assessment and grading practices are purposeful and used to inform teacher instruction, emphasize individual growth, and demonstrate progress towards college and career readiness.

The Curriculum Model has 5 focus areas.

Knowledge & Thinking: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools curricula is based on the Indiana Academic Standards. Students engage in learning that develops their skills to reason, problem-solve, develop sound arugments or decisions, and create new ideas by using appropriate sources and applying the knowledge and skills (Indiana Academic Standards). Through this process, they are able to think critically and become knowledgeable about the world around them.
Oral Communication: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes that developing oral communication skills is vital to academic, college, and career success. Students are empowered to advocate for themselves, ask relevant questions, and communicate clearly.
Written Communication: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes the ability to effectively communicate knowledge amd thinking through writing is essential for college and career success. Students build their written communication skills and are empowered to effectively communicate their ideas, share their voice, and advocate for their learning by organizing and structuring their ideas in writing while using discipline appropriate language and conventions.
Collaboration: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes that an individual needs to be able to contribute to group tasks for college and career success. Students are empowered to develop their collaboration skills with others and contribute to a learning community.
Agency: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes that an individual needs to the ability to make decisions, set goals, and plan and carry out next steps based on a world that is always learning and changing for college and career success. Students are empowered to self-reflect and develop skills of persistence.

Lake Ridge New Tech Schools utlizes ECHO as our primary means of communicating curricula in a daily basis. Through ECHO, parents and students can access curricular resouces such as announcements, grades, course learning modules, course agendas, assignments, assessments, rubrics, etc. Parents can access their child's ECHO by using their child's login information.

Indiana College Core

Calumet New Tech High School partners with Ivy Tech to offer students the Indiana College Core.
Learn more about earning up to 30 college credit hours here and by reaching out to the High School Counselors.

Calumet New Tech High School