Irving: Accelerated Academy
Principal
- Leila Flores
1110 West 4th St., Lorain, Ohio 44052
(440) 244-3171
Grades K through 6
Student Population: 450
School Hours: 8:00 am - 2:15 pm
Irving Accelerated Academy is a new accelerated learning program that challenges students to reach their greatest potential.
A product of Lorain City Schools, the Accelerated Academy is a select program which utilizes the best personnel, teaching tools, techniques and resources from throughout the district.
Its goal is to empower its students to be highly sucessful, productive and valuable leaders of our community and beyond.
Goals
- Enrich and accelerate by taking into account the
needs of the individual child and their advanced
learning needs
- Provide opportunities that develop responsibility to
self and others
- Enhance the appreciation of lifelong learning
- Modification of the learning process through depth
and complexity of the learning environment
- Students demonstrate learning through multiple
products/projects
- Utilize cutting edge technological resources and
dynamic instructional models to increase student
interest and engagement
Classroom Experiences
- Independent studies
- Literature circles
- Junior Great Books
- CoRT: Cognitive Reasoning and Thinking
- Power of the Pencil writing program
- Mock Trial, Young Authors, Invention Convention
- Interdisciplinary Studies, project based learning,
novel studies
- Character development
- Acceleration plans
A Successful Student
- Arrives on time and attends everyday
- Works well with others
- Enthusiastic about special projects
- Willing to use imagination
- Actively involved in his learning
- Creatively inspired
- Seeks new challenges
- Lifelong learner
- Independent worker
- Embraces the opportunity to undertake difficult tasks
Student Requirements
- Grades K – 6
- Students enrolled in Lorain City Schools are given
priority over students from other districts
- Students qualify to enter program based on
teacher recommendation, scores from the OAT
and testing results from a nationally normed test
- Students qualified for gifted self-contained classes
must have gifted identification in two areas
Teacher Requirements
- Minimum 3 years teaching experience
- Masters Degree
- Ongoing Professional Development
- State funded gifted unit teachers must have Gifted
Intervention Specialist Endorsement
- Provide written education plans for identified gifted
students
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