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Northshore Christian Academy
A Multiple National Award Winning School
NCA has received the following Association of Christian Schools International Exemplary School Awards:
2004-2005, NASA Science Files: Partnering with NASA, Society of Women Engineers, Boeing and local scientists to provide a ‘hands-on’ science. This program utilizes the NASA SCIence Files curriculum and local engineers as teachers. Since 2002, Jackie Johnson, Boeing engineer and NCA parent, initiated and led this program at NCA.
2005-2006, Navigating the World – Student and Educators Exchange: Students ranging from K-8th grade participated in making this multi-faceted, multi-cultural, multi-country outreach possible, this program reached Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala and South Africa (1) teaching students that God uses everyone (principals teachers, parents and students) to make an impact on ministries around the world and (2) to provide training and supplies through teacher-to-teacher, administrator-to-administrator, parent-to-parent, and student-to-student connections through Christian schools and other ministries.
2006-2007, Student-Led Parent-Teacher Conferences: This program was introduced to NCA’s 5th grade in 2002 by one of NCA’s creative and dedicated 5th grade teachers, and now includes 6th-8th grade. Other 5th grade components that make NCA’s 5th grade program innovative include: Sail Away Simulation (each student is assigned a colony to research, create a travel brochure, a display board and teach others about their colony); Night of the Notables (each student acquires the identity of a historical figure and teaches others about this person); Writer’s Café (students share their creative writing work to parents in an evening ‘café’ event); Inventions (students invent a new contraption using scientific principles with ‘stuff’ found around the house; Class Meetings (weekly meetings that are led by students to discuss class dynamics); Math Game Unit (studying the latest research in math education, new math games and activities were added to 5th grade); and Spelling Mastery Exercise (physical movement and a large floor map is used to teach challenging spelling words).
2007-2008, Talking School Radio Project: The goal of NCA’s campus radio station is to promote home and school communication, to maximize family awareness of and involvement in school activities, and to develop student leadership skills through a unique, innovative way of broadcasting news throughout the campus. As families arrive on campus, they tune into the NCA radio station to hear announcements and events occurring at Northshore.
Northshore has also received the following awards:
- 2004-2005: UNOVA Foundation, K-12 Education Support Program
- 2005-2006: Intermec Foundation, K-12 Education Support Program
- 2005-2006: Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Career Guidance Media Award
- 2006-2007: Washington Federation of Independent Schools (WFIS)
- Parent of the Year Award - Jackie Johnson, NASA Science Files - Program Leader
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