City Academy introduced Personal Education Plans (PEP) for their students at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year. PEPs are designed to assist students in achieving individually-based objectives with positive results by personally documenting achievements and highlights, class progress, aspirational goals, and citizenship throughout the year. Objective actions are recorded by each student to track what they are working on towards their individual plan goals.
The ultimate goal is to have each student take personal responsibility and own their PEP, which includes updating all content and goals within their document. Each student also receives support for their PEP process from their Advisor who meets with them weekly. The PEP program provides students independence in creating academic paths and monitoring their success while working towards individual goals. Students will then present results to their parents throughout the school year and in conjunction with instructors during Parent-Teacher Conferences.
Sonia Woodbury, City Academy Executive Director, said that it is the school’s mission to help students achieve their best possible success and to pay close attention to each student’s personal progress. The PEP is an excellent tool to help students make goals, track their progress, and celebrate achievements with their parents and teachers throughout the school year. City Academy is focused on providing opportunities and new academic measures to help their students attain personal achievement goals and celebrate academic success.
City Academy, through the hard work of our computer science teacher Dennis Pedersen, is 1 of 2 schools in Utah and 1 of only 102 schools across the country that have been recognized by Code.org with the Computer Science Leaders award! This award comes with a prize of $10,000 to help the school enhance computer science education for their students.
Sonia Woodbury, PhD, and Executive Director comments “We are proud of Mr. Pedersen’s hard work and commitment that have earned him this very deserved award and we look forward to the educational opportunities in computer science that we will be able to offer our City Academy students”
City Academy is a public tuition-free charter school for grades 7 through 12. City Academy was founded in 2000 by a group of University of Utah educators who wanted to create a better type of school—a school that actually challenged students to think rather than just memorize facts.
Facts about City Academy – City Academy’s advanced placement program is unlike any AP or IB program in Utah. In fact, City Academy is the only school in the state offering the Cambridge University International Examinations program for Advanced Placement and pre-advanced classes. This program is recognized by every Ivy League school in the U.S. and several of the world’s most prestigious colleges and universities, as well as Utah colleges.
To learn more, visit cityacademyslc.org.
KUTV — The following information was provided by City Academy Charter High School.
City Academy Charter High School students have been completing service-learning internship projects as a part of their graduation requirements.
On Thursday, April 21st, from 4:00 pm until 5:30 pm, students will display something that was personally meaningful to them during their internship. The public is welcome to attend this event.
City Academy students have served and learned with 150 different organizations up to date.
A service-learning internship is much more than just volunteering for something or someone. It is both service and academic research centered around issues the student cares about.
City Academy students choose internships from one of five categories: Human, Animal, Environmental, Civic, and Social Issues.
Each student selects an organization outside their family or school, where they would like to do their service-learning.
While working with Executive Director Sonia Woodbury, they come up with one or two questions that they feel are important. At the end of the service, they are required to answer those questions.
Executive Director Sonia Woodbury said “This event is something we look forward to each year. To witness the passion that our students have at the end of serving is just an incredible thing to be part of. Their passion increases and they realize that serving and caring for others, is important in one’s life. I couldn’t be more thrilled to honor them at this event.”
This event is in honor of Global Youth Service Days, and the exhibition display is conducted each year.
For more information, go to cityacademyslc.org.
Source : https://kutv.com/features/fresh-living/event-to-celebrate-utah-high-school-students-service-oriented-internships
Charter schools are gaining popularity because of their personalized approaches and students are thriving because of it.
Charter schools are tuition-free independent public schools with the autonomy to build a welcoming culture, and to have smaller class sizes. This allows students to feel good about school and to get more of the one-on-one attention of their teachers. Students are learning better and seem to like school more.
Charter schools have been effective in bringing about an improvement in the performance of students through placing a greater emphasis on implementing more personalized teaching methods.
City Academy has established a school community of meaningful learning with smaller classrooms and personalized approaches to teaching.
Students at City Academy do interesting and personally meaningful learning each day in classrooms where they feel valued, and with teachers who know them, challenge them, and support their learning growth with hands-on and relevant learning experiences.
City Academy is a tuition-free charter school for 7th-12th grades. Go to cityacademyslc.org
As a parent, you want your child to receive the best education possible. There are many elements that factor in, but at or near the top of every list will be classroom size.
At City Academy, smaller class sizes with personalized meaningful learning opportunities are a foundation of our charter school program. We want our teachers to get the most learning progress from every student, and to us that means limiting class sizes and increasing individual attention from teachers. How can your child benefit from smaller class sizes? Let’s take a look.
One-on-One Attention
The simplest benefit is often the greatest one as well. Fewer students in the classroom naturally means teachers will spend more time with each individual student, time that can be spent enhancing their strong areas and working on their weaker ones. This will benefit the students themselves, but can also have major effects on teachers, who won’t be spread quite as thin and can feel more secure about getting each student the proper attention.
Fewer Disruptions
This is another natural benefit of a smaller number of students: Fewer organizational issues.
Instead of group activities taking 15 minutes to set up and get started while dozens of students use the movement as an excuse to goof off, smaller class sizes makes collaborative activities more doable. There are fewer personality conflicts between students, and the issues that do arise are easier for educators to address.
More Organic Interaction
Many students in huge, crowded school programs will naturally become introverts – so many faces can be intimidating. A smaller class setting, though, offers a bit more comfort with social elements, and a more forgiving atmosphere. Students can get to know each other better, which in turn enhances other learning elements like group work and class discussions.
Tailored Lessons
Beyond simply receiving the one-on-one time they need with teachers and other students, smaller class sizes offer a great way for students to receive the personalized lessons they often need. What works for one child may not work as well for another, and those odds get worse and worse the larger the class becomes.
With a smaller class, teachers can tailor lessons with much more specificity. They can adjust lessons for individuals without worrying about standardization or wasting time, a great way to prevent children who are struggling with certain elements from falling hopelessly behind.
At City Academy, class sizes from middle school through high school are kept small and comfortable for the benefit of your student. Our welcoming staff is standing by to answer your questions today.
March 2022. City Academy 8th graders had the opportunity to do some field work last week at the South Physics Observatory at the University of Utah. Hands-on STEM experiences help more young students find an interest in science. Students thought it was interesting that a solar convection current was the size of Texas, and that that the sun produces 1,000,000X the energy of a hydrogen bomb in one second. They were able to look through a telescope to see solar flares and sunspots. They learned that we use different lenses on telescopes to block out different wavelengths of light so we can view the sun without burning our eyes.
March 2022. At the Utah Science and Engineering Fair City Academy student, Felix Keil won 2nd place in the senior division for Civil and Environmental Engineering, and he also won the NASA Earth System Science Award for his project, Colonizing The Arctic: Our Last Great Hope. We are very proud of Felix and his hard work on this project. Thank you also to Mr. Gabriele, his science teacher who supported his efforts.
February 2022. The Rotary International City Academy Interact Service Club made a beautiful quilt to donate to the organization “Wrap Them In Love.” This organization donates quilts to children in need throughout the world. Students, staff, and parents contributed to the project. The Interact Club is grateful to support from their sponsoring club Millcreek Rotary.
January 2022. Four City Academy students had qualified submissions for the 50th Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show this year. This is a juried competition housed at the Springville Museum of Art. Tyler Peterson had his piece, Bike Helmet selected for the competition. His art will be a part of the exhibition which opens to the public February 5. Congratulations Tyler!
November 2021. Spanish students from City Academy went to the Utah Cultural Celebration Center to learn from exhibitions there about Day of the Dead. “This is the best way to learn about culture and customs as well as to practice our language,” said their teacher, Señora Beeckel.
