What is The Quest?

2. The Quest is a collaborative group project in which students demonstrate mastery of Expected School-Wide Learning Results (ESLRs). It will span the course of each school year.  The project will begin in 9th grade and build each year as students go further in depth with their topic. Collaborative groups will consist of four students in the same grade level.  Collaborative groups will meet once per month with their Quest Coach for mini-lessons, progress monitoring, and to collect assignments to keep students on track.  The Quest is a graduation requirement for each year students attend Nuview Bridge Early College High School.   What is The Quest?

3. According to the National Education Association: As educators prepare students for this new global society, teaching the core content subjects—math, social studies, the arts—must be enhanced by incorporating critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. Why is The Quest important?

4. With a host of challenges facing our communities, along with instant connectivity to a global society, civic literacy couldn’t be more relevant. Global warming, immigration reform, pandemic diseases, and financial meltdowns are just a few of the issues today’s students will be called upon to address. Today’s students must be prepared to solve these challenges. According to the NEA

5. America’s system of education was built for an Economy and a society that no longer exists. In the manufacturing and agrarian economies that existed 50 years ago, it was enough to master the “Three Rs” (reading, writing, and arithmetic). In the modern “flat world,” the “Three Rs” simply aren’t enough. If today’s students want to compete in this global society, however, they must also be proficient communicators, creators, critical thinkers, and collaborators (the “Four Cs”). Those Four C’s

6. Employability…the struggle is real! Today, people can expect to have many jobs in multiple fields during their careers. The average person born in the latter years of the baby boom held 11 jobs between the ages of 18 and 44, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This means students need to be prepared to be highly adaptable rather than merely specialized.

7. What can be done? Arne Duncan secretary of department of education: “I want to develop a system of evaluation that draws on meaningful observations and input from [teachers’] peers, as well as a sophisticated assessment that measures individual student growth, creativity, and critical thinking.” We are doing this here at the Bridge via The Quest!

8. The prediction… The new social contract is different: only people who have the knowledge and skills to negotiate constant change and reinvent themselves for new situations will succeed.

9. 9th Grade:   Finding Your Passion 10th Grade:  Identifying a Problem & Possible Solutions  11th Grade: Choosing a Viable Solution  12th Grade:  Getting Involved  Quest Themes

10. You are responsible for all material presented in class • It is your responsibility to ask for missing assignments and/or to visit www.nbechsquest.weebly.com to download missing assignments. Due dates are listed on the website. • Late work will not be accepted. All assignments are due at the beginning of the class period. It is your responsibility to print materials or have assignments ready before the class period begins. • If you have a serious extenuating circumstance, speak with your coach as soon as possible. Waiting until the class period when something is due is not acceptable. Attendance & Late work

11. This course is a credit/no credit class and all work must be completed satisfactorily to receive credit. Failure to submit assignments on time that do not meet expectations may put students at risk from graduating from NBECHS. • Collaborative groups must earn 850/1000 points to fulfill The Quest graduation requirement. Evaluation

12. Students are expected to work together to research and present their chosen projects by the end of the school year. • The work that each group submits must be their own. Since this is a research project, any information that students did not know prior to starting their project must be properly cited using MLA format. Academic Integrity

13. 10th Grade – 1st Place 2014 "My Name is Two-Faced" (From left to right) Tabetha Tusant, Vanessa Armenta, Renee Gallardo, Daniela Ramirez, and Vanessa Le.

14. 10th Grade – 2nd Place 2014 "Agriculture Efficiency" (From left to right) Brandon Munoz, Cameron Hill, Jordan Grossa, and Daniel Martinez.

15. 10th Grade – 3rd Place 2014  "Autistic Life After School" (From left to right) Cynthia Martinez, Jenna Howell, Dylan Thompson, and Emma Cordova.

16. 11th Grade – 1st Place 2014 "Racial Discrimination" (From left to right) Felipe Vazquez, Diana Barajas, and Paulina Hernandez. Not pictured: Samantha Segura.

17. 11th Grade – 2nd Place 2014 "The Effect of Technology" (From left to right) Berlin Lopez, Collin Fulcher, Maureen Dixson, Jessica Marie-Mariano, and Veronica Rios.

18. 11th Grade – 3rd Place 2014 "HIV & AIDS" Ericka Flores, Carolina Acevedo, Martha Calderon, and Denise Landeros.

19. 12th Grade – 1st Place 2014 "Nuview Mentor Program" (From left to right) Aries Lopez, Alexis Tafolla, Ivonne Morales, and Ra'Jhon Sykes. These seniors noticed a need for a mentoring program at Mountain Shadows and began the program in April.

20. 12th Grade – 2nd Place 2014 "Helping the Homeless" (From left to right) Charlene Howell, Lauren Peter, and Christy Mc Allister. These seniors noticed a need in Perris and surrounding areas and prepared and delivered care packages to homeless people.

21. 12th Grade – 3rd Place 2014 "Change in Melody“ (From left to right) Gabriel Garcia and Wes Smith. These seniors wanted to tackled the negative impact of modern music on youth and society. They were responsible for the The Bridge's first anti-prom "MORP" (that's prom spelled backwards).