Eagle Creek's Mission
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Eagle Creek is a private school for children in preschool through 8th grade in Oakland Township, MI. Our mission is to prepare children for an increasingly global world.
That's why we have:
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Eagle Creek is nationally accredited.
We recently passed our re-accreditation for the next seven years! Accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) means that our program meets very high standards, including:
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Eagle Creek's students use cool technology!
Other fun tech projects
These fifth and sixth grade students used a MakeyMakey board as an interface between the computer and some play dough to make a working piano.
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Anshul, a sixth grade student, designed a board game based on a book he read in class called A Long Walk to Water. He named his board game “Water and War Trivial Pursuit” and created the game pieces to represent the book characters using the 3D design software Tinkercad. He was excited to use the software to group two geometrical pieces together. This required measuring and scaling to get the pieces to fit precisely on the squares.
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A NASA ambassador visited Eagle Creek with his big telescope to help us watch Mercury's transit across the sun.
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As a way to start learning coding, these young children created mazes, then directed the mouse through them using the arrows on the controller.
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Science Night
Every year, the children invite their parents to the classroom
to join in the science experiments we have been practicing.
Every year, the children invite their parents to the classroom
to join in the science experiments we have been practicing.
Our students are active members of the global community.
ECA's Young Fives class made Valentines and stuffed treat bags for children at the Center for Success in Pontiac.
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Our preschool children collected small toys and household items to prepare Christmas shoe boxes for children who live in Botswana, Uganda and Madagascar.
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After our 4th and 5th graders visited a nature center to learn which plants are invasive weeds, they engaged in a campus clean-up, pulling the weeds and picking up trash.
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"Since I really like giving my art to people, I thought I could sell some of my favorites and give the money to Charlotte’s Wings. I raised $65. I was really excited!" Kate
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Eagle Creek's Very High NWEA Standardized Test Scores
October 2019
48% of our students scored in the top 20% in the USA in math.
60% of our student scored in the top 20% in the USA in reading.
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Eagle Creek's Very High NWEA Standardized Test Scores
May 2019
43% of our students scored in the top 20% in the USA in math.
41% of ours students scored in the top 20% in the USA in reading.
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