JH School

RMR Academy

Team Three:  Grades 6-7-8

The school has five classrooms and 125 students, and its curriculum is based on the “Trivium” philosophy of education.  This level (Logic), would focus on the piecing together of basic facts and the logical interpretation of them.  The four core areas of instruction would be:  Math/Science, Language Arts, History/Social Studies, all reinforced with electives in the Classics.

The primary educational goal for this school of 200, and 8 classrooms, is to expand a child’s knowledge in all areas with critical thinking and problem solving development. We help students build self-esteem and confidence so they feel safe to explore and create new knowledge.

These are critical years when children develop their sense of self; who they are, and who they dream of becoming in the future.  In this important transitional time of their lives we provide a loving and nurturing environment where children feel valued and unafraid to express themselves. 

ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS AND GRADES:

 Our 15-acre campus is a prepared learning environment organized into three small schools, Esperanza Montessori Academy, K - 3^rd grade; Reyes Maria Ruiz (RMR) Academy, grades 4-6; and NFL YET Academy, Grades 9-12.  Each has its own identity, organization and theme in order to improve instruction.

We also have organized the schools into teams that correspond to the labeling test years of third, fifth, eighth, and tenth grade.  These teams will utilize the data results from these test years to place students into correct cohorts, so teachers can create an Individual Learning Plan for each student, and adjust their teaching strategies.

Each team is also organized to correspond to the “Trivium” curriculum levels:  Grammar - Kindergarten through the fifth grade; Logic – sixth to eighth grades, and Rhetoric I, grades nine and ten, and Rhetoric II, grades eleven and twelve, with Honors available for students who qualify.

The teacher is the facilitator of learning and they are required to structure their classroom by organizing their students into cohorts of excelling, meeting, approaching, or falls far below, based upon an analysis of at least the last three years.  The teacher then prepares annual goals and teaching strategies for each of their students and adjusts them each week based upon an internal assessment.

The goal is to have more than seventy-five percent of our third graders pass the Reading AIMS, and have the same percentage of eighth graders pass the Math AIMS, by the end of three years.