Warrendale Charter Academy's mission serves as the compass for our school. Everything we do must support our mission to: “Challenge each child to achieve through academic excellence, parental partnerships, moral focus, and student responsibility.”
At Warrendale Charter Academy, we believe that every child deserves a high quality education in a safe, structured learning environment where they are challenged to achieve and offered the support, resources, and guidance to succeed.
Academic Excellence
A quality K-8 education sets the critical foundation for a student’s success in high school, college and beyond. Warrendale Charter Academy is proud to offer a first-rate curriculum to provide students with a thorough understanding and mastery of the core subjects of language arts, science, math, and social studies. Recognizing the critical role proper curriculum plays in achieving academic excellence, our curriculum is constantly evaluated and improved by a dedicated curriculum team.
All Warrendale Charter Academy teachers receive extensive training on how best to deliver the curriculum in their classrooms through the use of proven teaching methods. Before joining Warrendale Charter Academy, all teachers attend New Teacher Orientation, where they receive intensive instruction from an experienced team of education experts, mentor teachers, and teacher trainers. In addition to several professional development opportunities throughout the year, our teachers may also elect to participate in NHA University to advance professionally and earn graduate-level college credits. These measures ultimately serve to improve our students’ academic performance, which is our top priority.
Moral Focus
At Warrendale Charter Academy, we believe great schools develop both a student’s heart and mind. Our moral focus program is designed to support our parents' efforts to teach character at home by reinforcing and modeling universal human virtues, such as compassion, respect, and integrity. A different virtue is featured each month of the school year and is supported by curriculum in the classroom. Students more readily absorb the true meaning of character qualities when they are presented in the context of everyday life.
Because of this, Greensboro Academy seeks to make these universal moral principles a part of all learning that occurs in our classrooms. Teachers model behavior that exemplifies the virtue and recognize students when they do the same. Classrooms maybe selected to perform a skit at a school-wide assembly that highlights the virtue of the month. The moral focus creates a school environment that is not just physically safe, but also emotionally safe. Students are taught to respect their classmates, make smart decisions, and resolve disputes in a manner that displays strong character.
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