Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the following essential design elements of its educational program:
Design Elements.
3.1.1 The Charter School shall have control over and responsibility for delivery of the educational program and for attainment of the performance standards as set forth in the charter school performance framework (the “Charter School Performance Framework”) Exhibit #1, as amended by Exhibit #1.1, incorporated herein. The Charter School shall have discretion to modify, amend, adapt, and otherwise change the educational program as it deems necessary to achieve the performance standards so long as such changes are consistent with the Charter Application and the Charter Contract.
3.1.2 In determining whether or not the Charter School complies with the essential terms of the educational program, the Authority will use the Charter Application (initial or as amended) as the basis to assess fidelity.
Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the essential design elements as presented in the Application, incorporated by reference. Any changes to the essential design elements shall be approved by the Commission.
Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the following essential design elements of its educational program: Teach to the high, and through strict adherence to the Harbor School Method, use the M ethod’s educational approach, curricula, and tools to provide multiple opportunities for mastering concepts, and to exceed State benchmarks in required academic testing. Ensure instructional fidelity across grade levels with core instructional methodology being consistent among teachers and grades, ensuring that students learn the instructional routines in early grades which accelerates their ability to focus on new information, skill development and thinking skills. In addition to emphasizing the traditional core curriculum areas of language arts, math, s cience, social studies, incorporate the Harbor Method’s educational features of providing self-contained 7th & 8th grade classes, the study of a foreign language beginning in at least the 3rd grade, and participation in music, PE and computer classes. Provide a School-to-Work experience that, in addition to the school’s academic p rogram, purposefully trains students to demonstrate “Attitude and Effort,” along with the characteristics of enthusiasm, efficiency and excellence in the work they do. Work- related programs appropriate for each grade level will be carried out, and will include an eighth-grade experience when each student spends two weeks working in the café under the direct supervision of the administrator. Working alongside the students, the administrator will give students feedback and issue a final grade based upon their work performance. Provide a School-to-Work emphasis and school culture by adopting policies that are intentionally designed to prepare students for the rigors and challenges of the workplace, including school policies establishing strict attendance requirements, respect for authority, real-life consequences for both positive and negative behaviors, and a culture of respect and kindness. Remove fear, threat and intimidation from the learning environment by implementing and carrying out the Harbor Method’s character education program that emphasizes kindness and a zero tolerance policy for teasing, taunting, bullying, and negative peer pressure. The character education program will also emphasize and require adults in Hold the school’s principal(s) directly accountable for the environment in which teachers teach and students learn. The principals’ primary responsibility ...
Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the following essential design elements of its educational program: Xavier Charter Schools have deliberately taken a classical approach to education which includes adherence to a time-tested view of learning and traditional teaching m ethods. Xavier’s classical education approach:
a. leads young people to understand themselves and the world around them. b. guides students to acquire concrete skills and gain knowledge in certain disciplines so they can participate fully and effectively in the human community. c. holds that human beings are thinking, moral creatures. Xavier actively teaches moral development. Xavier Charter Schools provides a political education worthy of this nation’s founding principles. It exalts the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as guaranteed by and realized through the American frame of government. It ensures that its students enter the world as citizens fully cognizant of their rights and responsibilities. Xavier Charter Schools value an education in the Arts. Classical education embraces the belief that creating in a specific medium affords young people the opportunity to reflect the beauty of the human spirit. Xavier’s study of the Arts includes visual art, aural art, kinetic art, and written art.
Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the following essential design elements of its educational program:
a. High Expectations and Rigor. The school will be focused on 21st-century learning and critical thinking skills, as well as Common Core-alignment. Students will be prepared for post-secondary education through dual-credit courses taken during high school and the alignment of curriculum with Common Core standards. The quality and rigor of student work is framed by competency-based standards planning and challenging learning objective and assessments.. This shall be verified by annual reporting of dual credit course enrollment count and utilizing third party reviewer reports for all online programs to assure they adhere to the common core standards.
Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the following essential design elements of its educational program:
a. The School shall serve pregnant and parenting teens.
b. The School shall provide a layered curriculum instructional model.
c. The School shall include flexible scheduling for students.
d. The School shall provide wrap-around services for students.
Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the following essential design elements of its educational program:
i. The School shall provide a Shoshoni language immersion program. This shall be verified by implementation of a Shoshoni language immersion program, curriculum, lesson plans, and class observation.
ii. The School shall provide instruction in Shoshone-Bannock culture. This shall be verified by curriculum, lesson plans, and class observation.
iii. The School shall emphasize a thematic approach to instruction. This shall be verified by classroom observation.
Design Elements. The School shall implement and maintain the following essential design elements of its educational program: • A course guide, lesson plans, and syllabi based on the Idaho Content Standards and national STEAM Standards as published by the National Center on Standards and Assessment Implementation. • Data-driven, high-quality differentiated instruction for all students. • A hybrid, standards-based approach to grading and communication of grades. • A differentiated approach through blended learning to enhance student learning and goal tracking.
Design Elements. Where sheds and outbuildings do not match the construction materials and colours of the dwelling they are to be screened from public view.
