At Joyner MicroSociety Magnet School we believe that children learn best by doing. Our mission is to create problem solving, critical thinking leaders through an environment that motivates children to learn by engaging them in the connections between the classroom and real world.
Guiding Principles
- Student Voice and Choice: Students who have voice and choice as citizens construct their own learning and shape their school.
- Learning by Doing: Students learn best by engaging in work that is meaningful to them.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: The entrepreneurial spirit motivates dynamic learning and pursuit of new ideas and opportunities.
- Real World Experiences: Increasingly sophisticated economic, social, and political experiences and a balance of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards continually engage and challenge students as their society matures.
- Teachers as Facilitators: Teachers are facilitators of integrating learning, providing multiple opportunities for success.
- Shared Responsibility and Authority: Opportunities for leadership, meaningful decision making, and responsibility are vested, aligned, and accounted for at every level.
- Partners as Contributors: Parents and partners are essential contributors to the learning community.