What is a block schedule and why do we believe it prepares our students for the college class room?

Students find the longer classes more interesting, because they incorporate discussion, in-class projects, simulations, oral presentations, lab sessions, and a myriad of other activities. Our block schedule allows students to be focused on their academic endeavors. NMH students take three major courses for an hour and thirty minutes each day for a semester, along with electives. In an NMH classroom, where the average size is 13, students are unable to passively sit by for a whole class period. Everyone must be engaged and prepared for class each day. Furthermore, the relationship that your child will have with their teacher and peers is far more dynamic due to their time together compared with most schools where kids take five or six forty-five minute classes each day.

Today's college classroom is not a series of forty five minute classes. Students are taking hour-and-a-half to three-hour-long courses two and three times a week. The NMH block schedule prepares your child for these college academic blocks.