Hardesty Transition Academy Videos

Residential and Student Life

Hardesty Transition Academy students experience living “independently” in a dormitory-style residential environment/setting, providing them with opportunities to explore identity and personal ideologies through experiences living away from home.
Facilitated social activities promote a sense of community and belonging, and students commit to academic success through reviewing and practicing what is taught in the applied academic class.
The grounds and the residence hall have the safety of 24-hour security, and support by professional staff.
Students have access to leadership opportunities (i.e., academy clubs).
To promote a welcoming, diverse and discrimination-and harassment-free space, intercultural awareness and an understanding of the values of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are instilled.

Operates via quarter system for academic calendaring and instructing eighty (80) ANL Curriculum and Certificate based courses.
Applied academics learning methods focus on motivating and challenging students to connect what they learn with the world they experience, and with what interests them.
Students also explore and discover the diversities amongst people, places, and things and how this supports their post-placement interest which includes housing interests.
The Academy curriculum provides learning and teaching techniques/styles that are Relational, Relevant, Realistic and encompass Result-Oriented Student Contextual Learning.

Provides students with real-life work experiences where they can apply their academic and practical talents to develop their employment skills.
Applied academic courses and materials are integrated with real life workplace scenarios to create a different learning paradigm.
The academy’s work-based learning deliberately merges theory with practice and acknowledges the connection of explicit and tacit knowledge.