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Our School’s Principles, Possibilities & Future
Successes
Rise together, and Ascend, through Education
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Mission:
The Wildcat School is dedicated to ensuring
every student succeeds and thrives in school, and will offer a curriculum
focusing on excellence in math and science as well as all core subjects
taught in a hands-on learning environment.
Vision:
We envision a dynamic educational process incorporating partnerships with
local colleges and universities, community groups and businesses that will
ensure students have time on campus, exposure to a wide array of academic
disciplines, and access to current research through outreach programs
across every campus, from fine arts to technology.
Belief:
We believe parents, educators, and community and business leaders, when
free to combine their creative power with their dedication to students, can
foster educational excellence. We believe that middle and high school
students achieve best when they are provided a rigorous curriculum offering
challenging problems and projects that require them to use their acquired
knowledge to understand, interpret and make decisions in real life
situations.
This is done by giving students a rich array of technologies,
resources and tools to excite their minds and their passions and by
engaging them in real-world settings to observe and apply their new skills.
Most importantly, we believe that this learning environment needs the
intellectual and emotional support of highly qualified teachers who can
give them the feedback needed for continuing academic and personal success.
Goals:
The Wildcat School will
- Strengthen
our community’s ability to offer quality education to students
from grades 6 through 12, especially those who might be considered
academically struggling,
- Engage
parents, educators, and community and business leaders in student
education and
- Provide
a forum for parents, educators and community and business leaders to
network and share success strategies to spread educational excellence
throughout the district.
What is a Charter
School?
Charter schools are public schools – free and open to all. Interested
parents, educators, and business and community leaders start these
non-traditional learning organizations, creating each charter school with
its own unique curricula and licensed by the State of Arizona.
What makes Wildcat different? Wildcat School
was established as a not-for-profit corporation in the summer 2005 to
address a gap in current educational opportunities to motivate any student
– especially those who may be struggling with schoolwork – and
prepare them for higher education, as well as inspire them to expand their
career horizons.
To maintain the rigorous academic standards,
the school will start with 160 students the first year with a plan to reach
a maximum of 560 students in grades 6 through 12. Each class will be
limited to only about 20 students. The school will operate on an extended
day and extended-year calendar– 200 days. During the academic year,
the school will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,
for 180 days. Students will attend school a minimum of 6½ hours daily, which
exceeds the state’s minimum requirements for instruction (890 hours
for 6th grade and 1,068 hours for 7th and 8th grades). Additional time
during the school day will be used for project work, one-on-one instruction
and mentoring, and accommodation of inquiry activities that will take place
on local college and university campuses throughout the school year.
The additional 20 days will require students to attend school
on five Saturdays throughout the year for sessions devoted to project
exhibitions and public displays of their work, and for a three-week summer
session devoted to workshops on local college and university campuses.
In addition to the designated school sessions, students will have access to
supplemental Saturday sessions for tutoring, mentoring and remediation,
under the general supervision of a Wildcat School
educator.
Our partners: Wildcat School
is based on a collaborative school initiative that will partner
intellectual resources from local universities and colleges with businesses
and community groups to achieve educational excellence. Students attending
the Wildcat School will have access to
world-class science and educational research resources, and, to learn
through innovative approaches to teaching and personal development.
Arizona’s
Center for Success: The ASCIENDES project is part of a new
initiative at the University of Arizona College of Education that will
bring together the University’s exceptional resources and community
outreach efforts to help students succeed from preschool through
postsecondary education. This partnership of intellectual resources form
across the University, and local businesses, community groups and school
districts will be developed right here at Wildcat School The innovative
work then will be shared with students and schools everywhere –
locally, nationally and internationally.
Wildcat
School Facility: Wildcat School Facility: Wildcat is a 20,000
square foot site located at 5660
S. 12th Ave. Please stop by and visit or
call us to arrange a tour of the facility. Our office number is
520-294-5473.
Charter Status: The Arizona State Board for
Charter Schools has sponsored and contracted with The Wildcat School as a Charter School and issued a certificate to
that effect on April 18, 2006.
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