The Magnet School focuses on facilitating ‘The Studio Approach’ with Science, Mathematics, Language & Literature and Social Studies. This approach helps children in understanding concepts and the subject very thoroughly thereby, building a very strong foundation for them.
The Magnet School
* will improve the community it is embedded within and serves.
* can adapt quickly to human needs and changes in technology.
* has students that not only ask great questions, but do so with great frequency and ferocity.
* speaks the language of its students.
* does not make empty promises or create noble-but-misleading mission statements, or mislead
parents and community-members with edu-jargon. It is authentic and transparent.
* facilitates thought, not just content.
* produces students that know themselves in their own context, a context that they understand and
choose. This includes culture, community, language, and profession.
* produces students that have personal and specific hope for the future that they can articulate and
believe in and share with others.
* produces students that can empathize, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, restore, and
understand almost anything–and then do so as a matter of habit.
* will erode the societal tendency towards greed, consumerism, and hording of resources we all
need.
* helps student separate trivial knowledge from vocational knowledge from academic knowledge
from applied knowledge from knowledge-as-wisdom.
* will experience disruption in its own patterns and practices and values because its students are
creative, empowered, and connected, and cause unpredictable change themselves.
* will produce students that can think critically–about issues of human interest, curiosity, artistry,
craft, legacy, husbandry, agriculture, and more–and then do so.
* will help students see themselves in terms of their historical framing, familial legacy, social context,
and global connectivity.
Posted on September 8, 2015. Modified on September 8, 2015