hi
I'm Ashley mama knows I had a school of the Premier
Academy an integrated arts Charter School opening
in the fall of 2023
a group of stakeholders together they were Business
Leaders politicians Educators
parents and students to
look
and sound like
that
list includes somebody who pursues
who knows what it is to work
hard to get really good at
something we want critical thinkers
now everybody carries a computer in there
write that cell phone that they
can basically Google anything in a moment's notice that's
a lovely skill but we really want
our people who can create solve problems
because that's one of the number one skills
that are needed in the workforce today
consonant collaborators kids
who are not afraid to talk to each other and
to communicate to adult and to The Wider Community
we want students with grit and
resilience the ability to fail
and try again because
that's what the real world really is we
want students with academic skills those that are comfortable
reading and writing and communicating
to the world who know confidently how
to solve math problems and and increase
thinking in science
so interesting but the academic skills
out of this long list with all
of our stakeholders kind of fell to the Bottom now that it's
not important but the things that are going to make
these students employable and good citizens
Rose to the top that's why
chosen some very specific and
intentional teaching strategies to help our
students become this profile
of a graduate the first teaching strategy
is Arts integration that's where we teach
a Content area like English or social
what is math or science do the lens of the
art it's a way for kids to lean
in and get excited about what they're learning it's
a way to make it more concrete so
that they remember what it is that they're using
their body to recreate
I'm standing outside of key benefits
start cinegration one of them is obvious
student buying they're
excited they're loving it they're
going to actually be in class
and I do understand the time
better as well it's also excellent
for critical thinking skills because
they have to understand how different things fit
together in the world rather than just
listening and putting it back on a
Grecian also so wonderful
to meet students directly because
it meets them in a way that
they understand the content through
something that they care about it develop
21st century skills because
the Arts are a communication device and
how many ways are we reminded
everyday that students don't necessarily communicate
well with each other unless it's to their thumbs
via text this is important
we went students to be able to speak to each other
write effectively to communicate to a large group of people
these are all skills that students will have to
use beyond the Premier Academy and into
their careers the last thing of how to correct
your vision of Arts integration that is so
important is that an innately
we want to bring joy
back to teaching and learning we want kids
to want to be at school to
be excited about what it is they're going to
be learning or participating
in that day Joy is a highly
serrated asset to any school and you will
find it in abundance at the premier Arts Academy
the second pillar of our teaching strategy
is called challenge-based learning and this is
cross curricular student-led projects
that incorporate the Arts in
so it's
a focus on authentic literacy
where students get to read and write
and communicate for an authentic audience
is provides choice
and buying
arts for kids will be working together across
some developmentally appropriate age bands
to sell problems that they think
are important it keeps them not
only buying but it's been important
because they get to see
what impact they can actually make on
the world and then the last part of
this is that they then have a regular
Community Expo where they
present their findings to the community
to the parents grandparents community
they're interested in what they're learning about
authentic feedback right there
to hear what the community thinks
about what their ideas imagine
learning this as
students doing
you're not sitting and listening they're doing they're engaging
their building and venting
imagining that switch challenge base
learning brings to the table if
you'd like to see a man challenge
based learning at work in an actual classroom
play some videos from Magic Topia in the description
below take a look you'll be amazed
at what you see the third
pillar of our teaching strategies is
small group instruction we like to say that kids
are going to get exactly what they want through
integration and challenge-based learning but they're also going
to get exactly what they need every day
every kid will get leveled small group
instruction that means regularly we will
have benchmark assessments for students with
the skills that they need
you're practicing in some cases that's
remediation there might be some gaps that need
to be filled and reading and math for some
kids it might just be extra practice I'm
just a little bit more for our kids for
high-flyers the ones who are
they need enrichment and extension it's
important that they're not just left
doing the exact same thing every day even
though they've already mastered those skilled
we're going to continue to push every student
at the Premier Academy will meet them
right when they're at we're going to love them too much to leave
them there so let me give you a quick rundown of
how a student might experience each
of these three pillars throughout their day first
of all our school starts at 8 a.m.
and kids will come into their homeroom
to have their morning huddle where they will
meet with their homeroom teacher and have an overview
of what to expect that day the importance
for social emotional learning for character
development have this time
with a class to talk about what
can expect that day first of literacy
block where they will
experience a Hands-On aren't integrated
literacy lesson that also integrate things
like social studies and science through the
90-minute literacy block students will have a
spring break and then move into their book clubs
where every teacher paraprofessional and
administrator in the building will be in charge
of overseeing our book loves
this means that we have an all-hands-on-deck
approach we want to make sure
every adult in the building is responsible
for the success and
growth of every student in the building
as well as
tree Saxon
Math groups where students will rotate
30 minutes as
book
clubs where also they will
be level according to the skills that they need
to work on lunch
recess in that group you can expect
steam class stands
for science technology engineering arts
and math and steam class
students will use you will
be bringing
in science Technology and Engineering
and don't forget art as a way to make sure
students fully understand the contact then
they working
on those challenge-based learning
projects and so
that they can put everything
throughout the day into practice with
all those real-world problems during challenge our
the last hour of the day is our arts in action
class Professional Arts educators will
be coming in to teach a very
intentional curated survey of the
in kindergarten through 5th grade and
6th 7th and 8th grade make it to choose
an Arts major or they will everyday work
for an hour a day and that Medium
to make sure they really are truly pursuing
excellence
Tarrant convenience is a priority to
me it's very important that
students have a drop-off and pick-up
schedule that's just with people schedules so
we offer before starting at
6 a.m. and after care
he picked up as late as 7 p.m. important
for people to know that our school
breaks will also mirror the local districts that
if you have older students and other schools
that you don't have to worry about your fall break Christmas
break spring break snot lining
the beer excited about our three pillars
of teaching strategies and the different
curriculums we've chosen to be the backbone then
you might be interested in how to enroll all
you have to do is fill out on
our website before February 4th
on February 15th will be holding a student
lottery for any class that has
more interest than seat you'll find
out on the 16th whether or not you have a
space at the premier arts academy and
everybody will be weight listed after that point
waitlisted students will move up as fast become
available you can click
on and
it will give you all the information and more
that you need to follow the
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