Benefits of PASS

Benefits for Your School

By implementing the PASS program, your school will benefit from:

• More graduates who understand personal responsibility and who have the skills for lifelong learning.
• Students who are better able to perform up to their potential.
• Cohesiveness among diverse students who otherwise would not have opportunities for interaction.
• Improved student leadership abilities that affect the rest of the student body.
• Increased school revenue due to improved student attendance.
• Strengthened faculty capacity for problem solving and leadership by infusing new principles and strategies for improving education.
• Rekindled enthusiasm and commitment of professional staff.

Benefits for Educational Reform

The PASS program addresses a number of important educational-reform issues, including:

• Project-Based Curriculum — The PASS class is a year-long project where each student develops and implements a strategy for reaching individualized academic and physical goals.
• Assessment Strategies — The PASS teacher regularly observes and thoroughly rates student performance. Students also evaluate their own performance and keep track of their work in a portfolio that includes individualized goals, action plans, monitoring procedures, and certificates of achievement.
• Kinesthetic Learning and Academic Success — PASS challenges students to take the fundamentals that make athletes successful and to apply these fundamentals to their own academic and physical pursuits.
• Cooperative Learning — PASS capitalizes on the positive aspects and collaborative nature of sport culture by emphasizing teamwork in the classroom.
• Integrated Learning — The integration of subject areas, including language arts, social studies, psychology, philosophy, and physical education.
• School-Home Connection — The PASS program has regularly-scheduled parent/guardian meetings and ongoing home contact through status reports, letters, and phone calls.