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ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS AND GRADES:
Our 15-acre campus is a prepared learning environment organized into three small schools, Esperanza Montessori Academy, K - 3rd 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.
Through a partnership with the National Football League, the “Youth Education Town” (NFL-YET) provides a unique environment which develops students into high performing, critical thinkers, who will be proficient in leadership, language, reading, writing, and math. We cultivate charity, service, and respect for the personal beliefs of others and promote a sense of civic responsibility through our Servant Leadership courses. This school has 150 students, and its principal purpose is to form International Servant Leaders. This program is for select students who demonstrate the desire, ability, and heart to change the world. The students must demonstrate mastery in Leadership Formation, Community Development Methodology, and Project Management. They would also be expected to demonstrate competency in a Foreign Language, Mass Media, and Computer skills. In order to graduate the students should be able to manage and complete a minor (local) project, and advanced students (grades 11-12) should be able to manage and complete a major (international) project. The element of a successful project is when a student is able to demonstrate the use of all of these skills in completing a demonstration project. The four core areas of instruction are: Math/Science, Language Arts, History/Social Studies, all reinforced with electives in the Classics and International Leadership in grades 11 and 12. In order to insure that students master the core academic areas of Math and Reading, they are organized into two cohorts.
Team One: Grades 9-10
The first cohort is comprised of students in 9th and 10th grades whose sole focus is mastery of the core curriculum of Math/Science, Language Arts, and History/Social Studies. The curriculum also has as its foundation the “Trivium” philosophy of education. The 9th grade level (Logic), would focus on the piecing together of basic facts and the logical interpretation of them.
Team Two: Grades 11-12
The second cohort is comprised of students in 11th and 12th grades, or students who have passed 10th grade AIMS exams. The corresponding “Trivium” level is (Rhetoric) and its focus is on the clear articulation of logical thoughts demonstrated through thesis and term papers.
