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About Us
HistoryThe faculty, parents and students of MAS could not be here without the courage, sacrifice and commitment of community members who waged a successful campaign for equity and dignity. After 19 days of personal sacrifice and two years of intensive work, MAS will open its doors in the Fall of 2005, as one of four schools in the Little Village High School Campus, with 100 ninth graders, representing the best of the Little Village/North Lawndale community. A central reason for moving to small schools is to ultimately foster stronger and deeper learning relationships, student-to-student, student-to-teacher, and teacher-to-teacher. The school environment expects, and rewards, intellectual and artistic risk taking, as well as learning deeply about a variety of disciplines. Guiding Principles Multicultural education advocates the belief that students and their life histories and experiences should be placed of the center of the teaching and learning process and that pedagogy should occur in a context that is familiar to students and that addresses multiple ways of thinking. It values cultural differences and affirms the pluralism that students, their communities and teachers reflect. It challenges all forms of discrimination in schools and society through the promotion of democratic principles of social justice. Art-integration means that visual and performance art will be used to provide students with genuine learning experiences that connect them to their own culture, other cultures and engage their minds, hearts, and bodies. This effort will be supported by the presence of artists-in- residence within our faculty, as well as with support on many levels by our University Partners and exemplary cultural organizations. We define inquiry-based instruction as experiential learning that is student driven, and has life-long learning skills as a primary outcome. This kind of instruction starts with a question that guides the topic, and through a process of exploration ends with students taking social action after they draw their conclusions. Performance Assessment refers to a variety of tasks and situations in which students are given opportunities to demonstrate their understanding and to thoughtfully apply knowledge, skills, and habits of mind in a variety of contexts. Parents, guardians, and faculty will serve on students' exhibitions of learning that are gathered over time to show evidence of progress, acquisition, and application. |
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