School Concept. Peace Valley’s educational model is a compelling public choice, incorporating research-based strategies that improve and enhance student achievement, cognition, and social and emotional health. It provides an innovative and creative method for delivering Idaho Content Standards to students in the Treasure Valley. Peace Valley will be guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf Education, offering a rich curriculum that simultaneously addresses students’ academic, artistic and practical skills. Peace Valley will xxxxxx a nurturing, multisensory, multicultural, and nature-based learning environment where the arts are integrated into academic lessons to help stimulate students’ imaginations. Peace Valley’s model recognizes that children pass through distinctive developmental stages, which is why it will provide an open, creative environment that nurtures the emerging capacities at each age through: ● A cross-disciplinary approach with block scheduling and rigorous, relevant, balanced, developmentally based curriculum ● Sustainable living practices, environmental stewardship, and experiential learning through outdoor nature experiences, animal husbandry, and gardening skills ● Multi-sensory learning through singing, painting, movement, drawing, theater arts, storytelling, handwork, and the playing of recorders, flutes and stringed orchestral instruments ● A robust foreign language program where the goal is immersion and fluency ● A ‘looping’ or continuing relationship between the primary teacher and his or her respective class across the grades. The curriculum unfolds in ‘main-lesson’ (approximately the first two hours of daily instruction) blocks of two to four weeks’ duration. Main lesson subjects alternate primarily between language arts, math and science based blocks across the year. Once the main lesson is finished, the school day continues with an arrangement of specialty subjects (visual and movement arts, music, gardening, handwork, woodwork, and foreign language classes), interspersed with practice classes for the continued refinement of math and language arts skills. Peace Valley students will learn reading, writing, mathematics, geometry, history, geography, geology and natural sciences, while also learning to sing, play a musical instrument, draw, paint, model, carve and work with wood, act in plays, garden, cook, do handwork such as knitting and sewing, speak a foreign language, think critically and independently, and work harmoniously and res...
School Concept. The School shall operate in a manner consistent with the concept and mission statement set forth in its application approved by the Sponsor (Attachment A). The School shall not change the concept, mission statement, or its general implementation of these guidelines without the prior approval of the Sponsor.
School Concept. The Academy is grounded in core beliefs about children, how they learn and the responsibilities of the adults who shape their development. It is based on a whole school approach (See Whole School Approach, Appendix M) designed to educate children to be capable and caring graduates ready for the next level of their education. Our school creates a setting focused on the development of knowledge and skills, as well as the development of attitudes and dispositions of children. What makes our school unique is the manner in which competent and caring professionals, accelerated instruction, and the school environment work together. The Academy is based on the Harbor School Method which integrates elements from five key areas: School Leadership, School Culture, Parental Involvement, Instructional Fidelity, and Student Learning. The Academy provides an alternate public-school education for 558 of the approximately 13,000 students in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area. Since opening in 2006, The Academy has operated at 99% full capacity and continues to maintain waiting lists following each annual lottery.
