Walking through the hall here, It's a different feeling
It's a very village type feel
where you know everyone loves your kids and everyone
wants the best for your kids. It's just very nice having that community.
Community, Rigor, Character
those are basically or three pillars Community
the impact of that
is we're going to make sure that all
of our student are know. All of our students know they belong at Beacon.
thing I really liked about Beacon was there were
small class sizes it was a diverse environment
They love that the teachers really know them. The staff
really gets
to know who your kids are and I like that it's a little bit more individual attention.
They also really love the
teachers and how personable everybody is it
is really exciting that they're already developing a relationship with
the teachers that are higher up so when
they get there it's not going to be a new teacher with
a new face. I love that Beacon
has an open environment so they want families
to be involved. Community for us is reaching out
engaging family bring them in here
being involved in the school with volunteering in
other organizations here
you get to know a lot of other parents and other teachers.
We're all here for the kids and that's really nice to see.
the idea with rigor we want students to challenge themselves
academically but also socially because
it's a charter school they have the curriculum but they
add extra things also the teachers will look
at kind of what students are interested in and include
that in the curriculum. It's rigorous but
also looking at if students are struggling they'll help them too.
I think kids come here and
find teachers are more willing to be
flexible with them and that's what I liked about Beacon. We have
the flexibility to really see where students are and
use that to our advantage.
I was looking for another alternative to school where
the curriculum is different I
like the Spanish every day we love that they
are learning Spanish every day. It's been really fun because they are learningg Spanish
even my daughter that's in first grade is trying to
actually use it and that is a huge addition.
What the brain has to do to acquire a
second language that's important not only in
gaining Spanish knowledge but helping
you academically in other areas,
This just seemed like a really good fit especially coming from a Montessori
School where character education is really
important. Character education
is taking a lot of the traits
that make us better people and weaving that into
the course of the day. All teachers have the opportunity during
academic class to pause what they're doing and saying okay, we need to
focus on some character ed.
Teachers teach independence on how to stay
on top of our work and that means a lot because somebody
needs help you can always be there
If they can learn all of these skills that will take them so much further.
Welcoming somebody over to your table I hear reminders sometimes
in the hallways, hey, we gotta get to class.
Looking out for somebody that's character to us.
If you're looking for a place where you're kids belong, where they feel safe, where they are being challenged
academically it really is an amazing place
it really does have have a sense of belonging
We're going to know your students. They're going to matter to us.
We all have the same values. We're all teaching the same thing for our children.