Overview
In today’s globalized world, academic excellence cannot exist without an awareness and understanding of the world’s multiple cultures. Many of our students and teachers are bilingual and bicultural. Pan American Academy embraces this cultural diversity to enhance the academic experience of our students. Our strength is our diversity.
Mission: Pan American Academy Charter School aims to develop inquiring knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. Students will be encouraged to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners.
Vision: Pan American Academy Charter School prepares students to meet and exceed academic standards by promoting:
- Inquiry Based Learning
- Dual Language Instruction
- Intercultural Understanding
These goals will be reached through instituting expectations of excellence in our students, requiring consistent parental involvement, providing rigorous instruction and developing international minded leaders.
Values and Beliefs
We believe…
- That all students can learn at high levels by honoring and teaching to students’ multiple intelligences
- In accountability for all
- In celebrating diversity by emphasizing culture competencies
- In acceptance, communication, and the power of positive relationships
- In lifelong learning, students and staff
- In shared governance and decision-making among students, parents, staff and the community at large
- In meaningful collaboration focused on teaching and learning
- That teachers will engage students daily in an inquiry-based approach to learn
Learner Profiles
Our students will strive to be:
Inquirers, Knowledgeable, Thinkers, Communicators, Principled, Open-Minded, Caring, Risk-takers, Balanced, Reflective
Attitudes
It is vital that there is also focus on the development of personal attitudes towards people, towards the environment and towards learning, attitudes that contribute to the well-being of the individual and of the group.
At Pan American Academy students should demonstrate: Appreciation, Commitment, Confidence, Cooperation, Creativity, Curiosity, Empathy, Enthusiasm, Independence, Integrity, Respect and Tolerance.
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