[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 4, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1536]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   HONORING THE HOLLISTER SCHOOL DISTRICT'S ACCELERATED ACHIEVEMENT 
                                ACADEMY

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                           HON. JIMMY PANETTA

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 4, 2019

  Mr. PANETTA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the work of 
the students, teachers, and staff at the Accelerated Achievement 
Academy (AAA) in the Hollister School District. AAA has been recognized 
in 2019 as a National Blue Ribbon School for fostering an innovative, 
multi-dimensional learning environment for students across the central 
coast of California.
  The Accelerated Achievement Academy is one of the highest achieving 
schools in California, using evidence-based professional development 
and instructional practices in the classroom to engage students in 
transformative, real-world learning. AAA works with a Project-Based 
Learning (PBL) model that pushes students to develop deep content 
knowledge along with critical thinking, creativity, and communication 
skills. Through the PBL model, students interact with businesses, 
organizations, and their community. These interactions instill in them 
a sense of agency and purpose and a complex understanding of the world 
around them and their place in it.
  The teachers and staff at Accelerated Achievement Academy are deeply 
committed to developing bright and high-achieving students into kind 
and compassionate individuals. Each classroom creates a social 
contract, an agreement of behavior that builds peer-instructor 
relational skills to raise the social and emotional capacity of each 
individual student. Madam Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join me in 
recognizing the achievement and hard work of AAA.

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