Vision
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The John Adams Academies are restoring America's heritage by developing servant-leaders who are keepers and defenders of the principles of freedom for which our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
Details behind the Vision
Purposes and Specific Vision of The John Adams Academy:
- Fill education gap
- Love writings of founding fathers & principles
- Make available the successes already experienced in personal lives
- Building future principled leaders/statesmen
- Building leaders in every field
- Serving fellow men
- Interaction which enlightens understanding
- Understanding the patterns/impacts of "poor decisions"
- Teaching/Mentoring/Applying the principles of freedom
- Rigorous curriculum
- Preparing for a higher education
- Well-informed on Constitution, politics, economics
- Reintegrate the concept of "Men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights"
- Standards-based curriculum integrated within the core classes
- High quality, rigorous education
- Foundational core for our children
- Education steeped in classics
- Students begin to recognize their talents & begin to prepare for their unique mission-"Their finest hour"
- Have youth understand the realities of economics, debt, borrowing, and how to see a bigger picture in these areas.
Stakeholders and their needs
- Parents:
- - confident that children are getting the best education
- - understand role as stakeholder in the learning environment
- - fund-raising opportunities
- - up-front knowledge
- Students
- -Extra time for remediation
- -Inspiration
- -To experience success
- Board
- -Getting parents to volunteer
- -The right fit teachers
- Teachers
- -Professional development
- -Happy & Inspired
- Flexibility and self-direction to foster creativity
- School Board
- -Legal confidence
- -High level test scores
- -Clean audits
- Donors
- -Well-defined vision and mission
- -Evidence of vision achievement
- -Recognition for their contributions
- Community
- Active and positive contributors to the community
- More service to be performed by young people
Using an education model centered on mentors and classics, we provide a learning environment that fosters student-empowered learning and principles of leadership and an understanding of and appreciation for our nation's heritage and the resulting freedoms we possess.
