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My mission is to provide the best education to all learners.

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• offices building
o first floor: main office and non-instructional staff offices
o second floor: elementary teacher offices
o third floor: junior and senior high teacher offices
o fourth floor: excess storage

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• dormitory building
o a fully-staffed housing area for students at risk (requires parental consent except for homeless children and teen parents)
o housing available for other students who would prefer to live on-campus (also requires parental consent)
o includes a care center for teen parents (during school hours), and a fully-stocked kitchen

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• school building with three floors
o first floor (elementary level) for first through sixth grade (with gym and cafeteria)
o second floor (junior high level) for seventh through ninth grade (with 2 computer labs)
o third floor (senior high level) for tenth through twelfth grade (with library)
o each floor has two nurse offices next to the stairwells
o sports fields behind the school building

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• student-centered, liberal arts curriculum
• teach prosocial values such as honesty, patriotism, fairness, and civility.
NO high-stakes tests, NO "adequate yearly progress" requirements, and NO standardized assessments

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o Consulting teacher
o Resource-room teacher
o School psychologist
o Speech and language specialist
o Physical therapist
o Occupational therapist

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• Assistive Technology for Special Learners
o talking word processor
o speech synthesizer
o touch-sensitive computer screens
o computer screen image enlarger
o teletypewriter (TTY) (connects to telephone and types a spoken message to another TTY)
o customized computer keyboards
o ultrasonic head controls for computers
o voice-recognition computers
o television closed captioning
o Kurweil reading machine (scans print and reads it aloud)

• Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, Word, etc.)
• Personalized Learning Games

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My school will enroll...
• students at risk (such as latchkey children and homeless)
• students with learning disabilities (such as autism)
• and exceptional learners (a.k.a. "talented and gifted")

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• teach prosocial values such as honesty, patriotism, fairness, and civility.

extracurricular/cocurricular programs
• special-interest groups
• student government
• honor societies

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• security cameras everywhere (except bathrooms)
• community-like place with shared purpose and commitment to providing the best education possible for all students and open three-way communication between students and/or parents/guardians, teachers and administrations.
• open-space design for elementary level classrooms and departmentalization design for junior and senior high level classrooms.

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• require civics/citizenship to teach students to participate responsibly in our nation's society
• to prepare students for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment
• to teach knowledge and skills to improve society and to adapt to rapid social change
• require a minimum of 120 internship hours to prepare students to serve others through voluteerism and to participate actively in the political life of the nation

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Requirements
• CRT (culturally responsive teachers)
• HQT (highly qualified teachers)
• hybrid teachers
• a master's degree in education, in technology, and in linguistics for multicultural classrooms and bilingual education
• mastery of pedagogical content knowledge
• creativity/originality
• flexibility
• persistence
• intuition and insight
• high energy levels
• a passion for teaching
• care about children
• constructive assertiveness

Skills
• strong verbal and written communication skills
• active listening and active learning skills
• classroom management skills
• social perceptiveness
• critical thinking
• reading comprehension
• interpersonal skills
• time management skills
• complex and/or spontaneous problem solving skills
• deductive and inductive reasoning skills

Responsibilities
• implementing appropriate learning strategies
• monitoring student behavior
• judgment and decision making
• developing short--term and long-term instructional goals

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Members:
• Principal, 2 Assistant Principals and 2 Associate Principals

• Teacher Leadership (“teacher leaders” and “master teachers”)

• Special Education team

• 4 Guidance Counselors

• Education Professor
• Student Government

Responsibilities:
• peer assessment and self-assessment
§ observe four domains with an analytic rubric: management of student conduct, instructional organization and development, presentation of subject matter, verbal and nonverbal communication (ratings: ineffective, developing, effective, highly effective)
§ team-building

§ project management

§ designing and delivering staff development

§ researching

§ public relations

§ visioning

§ mentoring new teachers

§ program/school evaluation(s)

§ change facilitation

§ networking and partnership building

§  grant writing/seeking external funding

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Constructivist
Social Reconstructivist (77%)
Existentialist (72%)
Progressivist (64%)
Perennialist (58%)
Essentialist (50%)

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mascot: kawaii Pegasus

• alternative academy with a liberal arts focus
• all buildings have AC and heating systems
• American-Finland fusion