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PHOENIX ACADEMY
ALL ABOUT
The Phoenix Academy of Art and Science school program has been developed on research-backed foundational teaching and learning practices with the intent of offering a curriculum that is more experiential and personally appealing to students.
Phoenix Academy is a comprehensive tuition-free public K-8 school offering a rigorous academic program while integrating the visual and performing arts. Phoenix Academy is a unique learning environment with smaller classrooms, lower student to teacher ratios, and a hands-on approach to teaching and learning.
WHY PHOENIX ACADEMY?
The Phoenix Academy of Art & Science creates a safe, engaging, positive and hands-on learning environment of core academics including the valuable instruction of the arts and sciences. By building on the foundation of supportive relationships among school staff, students, families, and communities, each student’s needs are met at their individual level socially and academically. We strive to promote happy and confident students who develop a love of learning.
CLASSROOM DESIGN
SUPPORTIVE
Each Phoenix Academy classroom is designed to provide high levels of support to all students by providing regular small group and individualized instruction on a daily basis.
Regular small group instruction is made possible through the use of instructional assistants/paraprofessionals and by using rotation based instructional strategies.
We follow a data-driven instructional model using frequent assessment tools to evaluate how well students are learning and then to plan how to provide individualized instruction until each student masters each topic.
ART & MUSIC
INTEGRATION OF
It has been discovered that when the arts are integrated into academic instruction, the learning experiences can become enhanced with discovery, improving the conditions for learning.
Over the past two decades, ample research has been conducted establishing direct correlations between sustained involvement in arts programs and the development of cognitive and meta-cognitive capacities or “habits of mind,” associated with high student achievement and college readiness.
PHOENIX PROCESSES
DAILY 5 READING
A research backed process that maximizes engagement and small group instruction with the teacher. (Also Daily 3 for Math)
MASTERY LEARNING
When students are not successful in a given lesson or unit, we re-teach and re-assess until students are successful.
INTEGRATION
OF THE ARTS
Proven to reduce boredom, increase critical thinking, motivation and a variety of other 21st century skills.
DATA-DRIVEN
DECISION MAKING
​We use data about how a student is progressing to create individualized lessons based on that information.
TEACHING
ROTATION-BASED
In order to support mastery learning in the classrooms, Phoenix Academy teachers use a rotation-based teaching methodology, allowing students to be more active with the curriculum, receive individualized attention from the teacher and work in groups with students at similar academic levels.
Regular small-group and individualized learning occurs daily as needed. Small group and individualized learning benefits all students, including those who are advanced and may become bored easily in class.
Within this highly supportive classroom design, advanced students can also work in small groups or individually on enrichment projects designed around their particular interests.
PHOENIX ACADEMY
MORE ABOUT
Phoenix Academy teachers will use data gathered frequently from student assessments (formal and informal) and develop small group or individualized lessons to go back and re-teach concepts until all students have learned or mastered the topic (mastery learning).
In some cases, this process will be used to plan advanced lessons or projects (enrichment) for advanced students needing more challenging work. This practice helps to ensure that all students are learning a standard prior to advancing on in the curriculum.
This is especially important in topics of math and science where success in one standard is often dependent upon how well a student has mastered previous ones. For example, we want to make sure that students have mastered the topic of adding and subtracting fractions before they move on to multiplying and dividing fractions.
MISSION STATEMENT
PHOENIX ACADEMY
We create a safe, engaging, positive and hands-on learning environment of core academics including the valuable instruction of the arts and sciences.
By building on the foundation of supportive relationships among school staff, students, families, and communities, each student’s needs are met at their individual level socially and academically.
We strive to promote happy and confident students who develop a love of learning.
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