Mission
The Academy at Kiley will provide a rigorous academic program that fosters character, inquiry, reflection and a mastery of learning standards through Expeditionary Learning core practices.
Vision
A school should be a place where we are a community of learners. Where everyone in the building is constantly learning and improving. Schools are not test-preparation centers, but rather places where students come to gain the skills and competencies required to meet state expectations for their grades and the skills required to be productive members of society, including the ability to be critical consumers of the world around them. Schools should be the lynchpins of their community, places where all stakeholders recognize that when our students fail, we all fail, when they succeed, we all succeed.
Instructional Vision
Students learn best in highly structured and highly relational environments where they are opportunities to grapple with challenging concepts; through independent work time, and ample opportunities to discuss, collaborate, and receive and implement regular feedback, while building relationships of mutual trust and respect between other students and adults. Teachers then serve as facilitators or learning, guiding students through learning tasks and synthesizing major concepts, while helping them to make the connections between the concepts and their own world through thoughtful planning and modeling, responding to data, and purposeful culture-building actions.
In short, students' working on grade-level standards and beyond with teachers pushing the thinking back on to students and providing them opportunities to make connections to the content.
Anti-Racism Statement
Equity exists in our schools when all educators, students, and families, regardless of race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, and other identifiers, have unimpeded access to inclusive learning and working environments characterized by high quality instruction, rich systems of support, robust information, and differentiated opportunities that contribute to their personal growth and academic success. We are beginning to raise awareness of bias and systematically work to dismantle the policies and institutional practices that are inherently racist and inequitable.
The Academy at Kiley will provide a rigorous academic program that fosters character, inquiry, reflection and a mastery of learning standards through Expeditionary Learning core practices.
Vision
A school should be a place where we are a community of learners. Where everyone in the building is constantly learning and improving. Schools are not test-preparation centers, but rather places where students come to gain the skills and competencies required to meet state expectations for their grades and the skills required to be productive members of society, including the ability to be critical consumers of the world around them. Schools should be the lynchpins of their community, places where all stakeholders recognize that when our students fail, we all fail, when they succeed, we all succeed.
Instructional Vision
Students learn best in highly structured and highly relational environments where they are opportunities to grapple with challenging concepts; through independent work time, and ample opportunities to discuss, collaborate, and receive and implement regular feedback, while building relationships of mutual trust and respect between other students and adults. Teachers then serve as facilitators or learning, guiding students through learning tasks and synthesizing major concepts, while helping them to make the connections between the concepts and their own world through thoughtful planning and modeling, responding to data, and purposeful culture-building actions.
In short, students' working on grade-level standards and beyond with teachers pushing the thinking back on to students and providing them opportunities to make connections to the content.
Anti-Racism Statement
Equity exists in our schools when all educators, students, and families, regardless of race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, and other identifiers, have unimpeded access to inclusive learning and working environments characterized by high quality instruction, rich systems of support, robust information, and differentiated opportunities that contribute to their personal growth and academic success. We are beginning to raise awareness of bias and systematically work to dismantle the policies and institutional practices that are inherently racist and inequitable.
