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A Day In The Life
Of A Pride Student

In a typical school day at Pride Academy Charter School, our values, core beliefs, and the PACS Learning Cycle are central to the way our school community runs and guide the way our students live and learn.

8:00am James is a 7th grade student at Pride Academy. He starts his day as he does every day in morning assembly. Today, fellow students Brianna and Marcus take the final step of RESPONDING to the lessons learned from last week's suspension. James listens as they share their personal reflections and apologies for their fight last week, asking to be readmitted back into the community in front of their classmates, teachers, and parents.
9:00am It's now time for his language arts class and James is thankful he did last night's reading and study guide. He has been chosen to facilitate today's discussion and to help lead his class in comparing and contrasting what they UNDERSTAND to be the dominant character traits of Charlese and Maleeka in the class novel The Skin I'm In in preparation for the final student essays.
10:00am Next, time for gym. James finds himself in a debriefing circle with his other four friends as his group QUESTIONS the approach their group used in the team-building challenge of moving across the gym floor to the half-court line standing on only three two-by-fours. Their goal is to break their personal record. Oops! James slips off and they are back to the beginning, questioning what they can do differently this next try.
11:00am After congratulating themselves on the improved time they hit, James and his friends head to science. James has been working with his lab partner Kesha on their on-going experiment to determine whether plants grow better if exposed to music. Today Kesha and James are examining their first week's worth of data to SEEK answers to their initial questions.
12:00pm Lunch time. James is a homeroom representative of the Pride Academy Student Council and today's meeting is being held during lunch in the moderator's classroom. The student council reps are eager to meet. Their assignment is to report back to the group their UNDERSTANDING of which theme for the next dance is the best based on the initial surveys they conducted last week.
1:00pm Back to academics. This time, it's Spanish class where James is scheduled to share his presentation with the class in RESPONSE to the vocabulary and sentence structures he learned this unit. James has decided to incorporate them into a PowerPoint weather report for Argentina, playing the part of a local weatherman.
3:00pm It's an early dismissal day, so James and his friends are able to leave school straight after their last period. As he and his friends are waiting to catch the next bus downtown, the Pride teachers are back at the school hard at work. Teachers analyze together in clusters as they eagerly SEEK meaning from the latest data gleaned from the student interim assessments taken on Monday.
6:00pm Back at home, James does his homework while his mom is at Pride. James' mom is an active member of the Parent Council and this month's topic is fund-raising. Tonight's meeting is an exploratory session. James' mother rapidly jots down the initial QUESTIONS that quickly arise in the Parent Council's first brainstorming session on the topic.