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- Why we are here today…
- Overview of Spectrum Academy
- Building Blocks for the Future
- Applied Holistic Model
- Stakeholder’s Incentives
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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Holistic education/understanding
- Emotional & Multiple Intelligences
- Communication / negotiation skills
- Critical thinking development
- Technology-based curriculum
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- Growth…
- Intellectual
- Emotional
- Social
- Physical
- Artistic
- Creative
- Spiritual
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- 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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- Instructional Capacity
- Community Interface
- Data/Profit Center
- E-curriculum
- Distance Learning
- Adult Ed
- Web-based services
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- Charter School Start-up
- $1.5 Million – 100 students
- Residential Treatment
- Community Technology
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- 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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- Offer Critical Review/Questions
- 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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- 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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