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Outline
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Premise for Our Process
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Our Agenda for Now
  • Why we are here today…
  • Overview of Spectrum Academy
  • Building Blocks for the Future
  • Applied Holistic Model
  • Stakeholder’s Incentives
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"Where We Begin"
  • Where We Begin
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Trilogy of Transformation
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The Problem in Process
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Healing Our Youth
  • Our Clientele:
    • Disenfranchised (at-hope) Youth
      • Adjudicated to Group Home or Foster Care
      • Drug/Alcohol Problem/Hospitalization
      • Incarcerated in Juvenile Detention
      • Fringe population of charter/district schools



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Questions for Us
  • Why do you need to know this?
  • How does it affect our community?
  • What are the results of not addressing the situation?
  • What can be done collaboratively?
  • How do we continue….


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Building Blocks for the Future
  • East Valley Needs Assessment
    • Relevant Details
      • Youth needs and services primary concern of public
      • Maximization of funds primary concern of cities
  • How Spectrum Academy Complies
    • Academic, behavioral, residential, skill sets
    • 3 revenue sources in ONE
      • Includes future sustainability through CTC
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Spectrum’s Vision
  • Spectrum Academy leads Arizona’s learning and living communities in assisting ‘at-risk’ to ‘at-hope’ youths to heal their emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual wounds which create positive and profound changes in Arizona’s youth population.
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Spectrum’s Mission
  • Provide an alternative state-of-the-art holistic educational and living environment for at-hope youth 14 – 21 to find direction and purpose using proven programs that result in healthy and productive young adults who contribute to society.
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Strategic Planning
  • Components
    • Charter School
      • Academics and character development
    • Residential Treatment
      • Behavior, emotions and character development
    • Community Technology Center
      • Applied incentive practices
      • Data Center – revenue source
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Community Planning
  • Economic and employment benefits
    • Jobs > construction to staff
    • Collaborative cottage industries
  • Inter-tribal design elements
    • Honors traditional dwellings
    • Restores cultural heritage
    • Bridges diversity of Nations
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21st Century Education
  • Ten Educational Trends Shaping School Planning and Design
    • The Lines of Prescribed Attendance Areas Will Blur
    • Schools Will Be Smaller and More Neighborhood Oriented
    • There Will Be Fewer Students Per Class
    • Technology Will Dominate Instructional Delivery
    • The Typical Spaces Thought to Constitute a School May Change
    • Students and Teachers Will Be Organized Differently
    • Students Will Spend More Time in School
    • Instructional Materials Will Evolve
    • Grade Configurations Will Change
    • Schools Will Disappear Before the End of the 21st Century
    • (Or Will They?)
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Charter School
  • Holistic education/understanding
  • Emotional & Multiple Intelligences
  • Communication / negotiation skills
  • Critical thinking development
  • Technology-based curriculum


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Holistic Approach
  • Growth…
    • Intellectual
    • Emotional
    • Social
    • Physical
    • Artistic
    • Creative
    • Spiritual


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Residential Treatment
  • 6-8 students per residence
  • Counseling & Group Circles
  • Peer Community Development
  • Rites of Passage
  • Mentoring Programs
  • On-going support systems
  • Family Involvement
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Community Technology Center
  • Instructional Capacity
  • Community Interface
  • Data/Profit Center
    • E-curriculum
    • Distance Learning
    • Adult Ed
    • Web-based services


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E-commerce Trends
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The Numbers
  • Charter School Start-up
    • $1.5 Million – 100 students
  • Residential Treatment
    • $2 Million – 40 clients
  • Community Technology
    • $3 Million
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Stakeholders Incentives
  • Youth Preparedness for Life/Work
  • Higher Functional Employees
  • Choice of Continuing Education
  • Capable Citizenry for Change
  • Higher Participation in Community
  • ROI with CTC Operations


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How You Can Help
  • Offer Critical Review/Questions
    • Check for understanding
  • Further Contacts / Resources
    • Expands the Network Capacity
  • Donors and Funding Opportunities
    • Tax credits, Grants, Fed/State programs
  • Sharing Spectrum’s Vision/Mission
    • Increase in public awareness

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Currently Accepting…
  • Applications for Board of Directors
    • Impeccable community service
    • Passionate, purposeful, productive
    • Devotion toward empowering youth
    • Desire to create and manage change
  • 13-member BoD (11 plus Co-Directors)
    • 5 members needed for start up
    • 6 added in year two
    • 2 year terms, monthly meetings
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We are All the Same