At 3 Oaks Academy, we believe it is important to teach students to be an active, effective thinker across knowledge domains by instructing them in how to activate schema, interact with the surface level of text, and delve deep into the underlying structure. Understanding how to be metacognitive is at the heart of our instructional practices and students will learn and apply many different strategies to monitor their thinking. There is a wide array of thinking processes that will be taught, practiced and transferred across courses through our unique cross-curricular approach to high school. Both critical and creative thinking skills and strategies will be taught simultaneously and practiced in coursework daily. 

Students will study learning styles and philosophies, examine how their own mind approaches and processes information, how to utilize their strengths to their fullest potential, as well as continuously building areas to grow in. Time will be spent on understanding intellectual and emotional intelligence and how to grow their skill set in each area. Students will explore multiple ways to acquire knowledge, best storing practices to match their learning style and techniques for retrieving information. At this stage in their educational journey, we will work with students to develop time management and organizational skills to help them become independent learners. Across the year, students will be learning about the Growth Mindset by world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck to assist them in all areas of their lives.