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Milwaukee Renaissance Academy?s day will begin at 8:00 a.m. and will finish at 5:00 p.m. for every student. In addition, we will provide a 192-day school year, affording students an additional twelve days of academic instruction. This schedule was adopted because of the specific needs of the population we intend to serve. We anticipate that most of our students will be academically behind. In order to rapidly move children to and beyond grade level performance expectations, we will need extra time to teach the skills of students? current grades, but also the critical content skills of grade levels three to four levels prior. Therefore, embedded within our extended day and year we have also included more time into our schedule for the key foundational courses?120 minutes of daily instruction in language arts and 120 minutes of instruction in math. We will augment this strong focus in the core subjects by offering daily periods of science, history, foreign language, physical education, art, and various other enrichment activities.
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Every morning students will have an advisory period that will focus on (1) Skill Building and (2) Character Development. Skill Building advisory sessions will give students and teachers a time to focus on the skills that underlie academic success like note-taking, developing study habits, and test preparation. Character Development advisory sessions will allow students to reflect on personal issues and moral development. A common exercise on character days will be the school wide use of unified writing assignments. These silent writing exercises will be organized around the academy’s mission and core beliefs of college preparation, perseverance, social responsibility, professionalism, and overall character development. Advisors will use adages, stories, and histories to illustrate the importance of these topics and how they relate to the school’s culture and students’ individual lives.
In addition to the focused time on skill building and character development, there are strong structural advantages to Morning Advisory. First, students are able to interact with a teacher or an administrator in a very small setting. There are only approximately 14 students with each adult advisor. Advisors will be expected to develop relationships with the stud