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How SOAR Works
Core Elements
Rigorous Academic Instruction
Students engage in SOAR’s core academic classes in an extended school day. From 8:30 until 4:15 each day, students are on-task and engaged, providing them with more teaching and learning time than most children in the country. SOAR’s rigorous workshop model instruction is assessment-driven and student-centered. We provide intensive, explicit instruction while also creating ongoing opportunities to differentiate teaching and learning. Students are regularly assessed through formative and summative assessments in an interim assessment model.
Enrichment Offerings
All students participate in SOAR’s high-quality visual and performing arts enrichment program. Our extended day structure allows us to offer extended enrichment time, interspersed throughout the day, without sacrificing academic instructional time.
Responsive Classroom Approach
SOAR staff implements the nationally-recognized Responsive Classroom approach to elementary teaching that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. Our approach consists of classroom and school wide practices for deliberately helping children build academic and social-emotional competencies.
Support Services
SOAR’s students have access to middle school placement support, individual and group counseling, and family support services through our Dean of Support Services. Our extended school day, our whole-child focus, and our demanding expectations necessitate that we build strong partnerships with families.
Professional Development
SOAR staff members stay current on best practices in education and participate in ongoing, intensive professional development throughout the school year delivered by national experts in the field of education. All teachers also participate in a four-week summer professional development program.
Health and Wellness Education
The overarching importance of maintaining a healthy mind and body is woven deeply into the school’s culture and educational philosophy. To help children grow into life-long learners and responsible citizens, we cultivate the body as well as the mind.
