Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens 2019 Annual Report

Education
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Essential Experiences
Fifth-graders in the Akron Public Schools participated
in Essential Experiences, funded for three years by GAR
Foundation. One of six local organizations, the goal of the
program is to connect classroom learning to local culture
and history, complementing to the classroom curriculum.
This new educational approach gave Stan Hywet the
opportunity to not only expand access to Meet the Staff, a curriculum that had served
approximately one-third of Akron’s 5th grade students over the previous six years,
but to take it to a new level with specific pre- and post-activities, college and
career targets, and advanced technology elements built into the initiative.
1,680
Number of Essential Experience
students hosted by Stan Hywet
between September and March,
2019.
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