Evidence-Based Practices

LINC Academy students will feel surrounded by a range of intentionally designed supports focused on helping them not just succeed but thrive. While all of our curriculum tools and instructional approaches have been selected because they are evidence-based, we also include many evidence-based intentional supports focused on the needs of students who need additional support.

Coaching and counseling are important elements of LINC Academy’s approach to education. Our comprehensive approach to mental health and the development of soft skills is central to our success in reaching our mission.

Focus on Character Development and Soft Skills

Research shows that social skills are as important, if not more important, than intelligence; therefore, we provide curriculum focused on the development of soft skills, experiential learning opportunities such as educational field trips and community service activities. LINC’s curriculum further encourages leadership development and cooperative learning by employing values-based leadership lessons that use real-life images and narratives to engage students in a creative way. These curriculum tools aid teachers in speaking the students’ language and creates a more positive environment where everyone can more easily relate to each other.

Leadership Coaching

When a school focuses on developing all of its students as leaders, school contexts become transformative spaces. We believe that early leadership development can occur across learning contexts and be systemically prioritized. The evidence-base on leadership coaching suggests that nurturing interpersonal relationships will allow us to develop leadership and empower youth increasing self-awareness, improving connections with others, and participating as active and engaged members of their communities. Using our structured leadership curriculum, LINC Academy students will learn to create their own leadership pathway, while learning key knowledge and skills that will allow them to be engaged citizens in their school and community.

Balanced Academic and Emotional Support Environment

LINC Academy’s evidence-based social and emotional context, with a strong focus on coaching and the development of soft skills is unique to the typical public school offering in the state of Ohio. LINC Academy fills a need that would otherwise go unattended. Students develop academically, emotionally, and socially through the integrated education approach that focuses on leadership, wellness, academic rigor, and a personalized approach to learning.

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