Theme

With the instructional theme of International Studies, the Academy offers youngsters an exciting multinational educational adventure. The Academy will be the child's "passport" to learning about the global community. They will begin learning and using Spanish from kindergarten. This innovative and challenging elementary magnet school is designed to begin preparing children in Grades K through 5 to live and thrive in a global community. Extensive use of technology will enable the child to travel the world on an electronic journey.

As they study at the Academy, students will acquire and demonstrate developmentally appropriate mastery of core content matter. They will apply that knowledge in contexts that relate to foreign countries, cultures, traditions, economies, and geographic/historic frameworks.

Together the school instruction and climate will enhance children’s comprehension of their relationship to their personal community and to the world community. By the end of the 5th grade in the Academy of International Studies, the student will understand and appreciate that global citizenship begins with responsible citizenship in one’s own world.

 

revised February 9, 2012

K. LaValley

Danbury Public Schools

“The world tends to come into our lives and homes these days more than ever before. We also have to challenge of bridging the gaps between nations, social classes, and the different worlds . . . The best we can do for children . . . is to prepare them to live with people of different cultures and languages.”

             ~ Inonge Mbikusita-lewanika in The Community of the Future, p. 259.