Paragon
Paragon Teaches Rich Content through Hands-on Study
If your child’s school district has recently cut arts and music out of their budget and you’re frustrated by the lack of options available to you, we invite you to experience the Paragon difference.
Mercury offers the content-rich Paragon Curriculum. With a hands-on approach, Paragon addresses students’ multiple intelligences and individual learning styles. Through this engaging curriculum, students gain historical facts and information in their various subjects, and come to understand the expansive potential open to them, helping to identify their individual strengths and sense of purpose.
Paragon Curriculum is Practical because it is Meaningful
Students learn connected networks of knowledge, skills, beliefs, and attitudes that they will find useful both in and outside of school. The significance and meaningfulness of the content is emphasized both in how it is presented to students, how it is developed through activities, and how it is authentically assessed. Step-by-step daily lesson plans are organized around core content and essential questions that have captivated thinkers for millennia and that will interest students, thereby connecting them with the content more profoundly, more personally, and more purposefully.
Paragon is a model of excellence in teaching and learning
The content-rich Paragon Curriculum is interdisciplinary, engaging, discovery-based, student centered, and multi-cultural. Paragon is unique because it:
- Contributes to intelligent education reform
- Balances cultural literacy with hands on learning
- Fulfills state and national history, social studies, and geography standards
Rather than teach history in bits and pieces in arbitrary sequence, Paragon’s fully integrated, chronological approach demonstrates to students how one idea builds on another. Historical events are connected and we believe students should learn about them in that way. The curriculum leads students to understand the evolutions of world cultures and study history across continents, while gaining an understanding of how ideas develop simultaneously in independent cultures unaware of the other’s breakthroughs.
Through this experience, students develop a larger picture of history and the associated interrelationships. Rather than memorize names, dates, and events in isolation, students recall the sequential circumstances surrounding these events. This leads to easy recognition of both factual information and conceptual relevance.
