Doral Academy of Colorado
-
Website
-
Email address
-
Telephone number
- School district
- Jefferson County R-1
- Authorizer
- Jefferson County R-1
About Doral Academy of Colorado
Opening with K-7 in the first year and adding a grade level each year thereafter. Doral Academy of Colorado seeks to develop students who are college and career ready having the skills to communicate, collaborate and think critically. The mission of Doral Academy of Colorado is to maximize student potential using an arts- integrated curriculum to educate the whole child. DAC will actively engage families and the community in this pursuit. The Doral Academy Inc. curriculum model has been highly successful in the opening of six schools in Florida and two schools in Nevada. Two of the Doral Academy High Schools have been consistently ranked as one of the nation s top schools. Doral Academy Charter High School, Florida continues to be ranked as one of the nation s top high schools according to US News & World Reports. Doral Academy of Colorado's educational philosophy is built upon innovative learning methods. Through the arts, (music, dance, theatre, visual arts, and media production) students will be afforded the opportunity to learn in a way that meets their own unique cultural, intellectual, social, and emotional needs. Students' minds will be opened and their understanding deepened through project-based learning. Learning will focus on creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, perseverance, and the ability to work through the rigorous demands, set forth by the CCSS, of numerous conceptual ideas intentionally woven together across content areas. Doral s program is modeled after specific arts-integration learning methods and strategies from Doral Inc. s replicated system as well as The Kennedy Center for the Arts. These methods have proven successful in raising both student engagement and achievement. Doral Academy of Colorado is committed to engaging all learners by educating the whole person: mind, body, and heart. Doral believes in high standards of achievement, in a culturally responsive school environment, can be realized through active learning by using an arts integrated approach, nurturing a strong sense of belonging to the school. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, identifies the arts as core academic subjects. Americans for the Arts (2005) revealed that the American people overwhelmingly believe that arts are vital to a well-rounded education. Yet, despite federal and state policies aimed at promoting the arts and despite the general public s opinion on arts, arts education is disappearing from our schools. The educational philosophy of Doral focuses on bringing back the arts to the classroom through cross curricular integration. Arts integration blends content and skills between an art form and an academic subject. Arts integration has been positively linked to increased student engagement, motivation, and persistence. Arts Integration enables students to make meaningful connections to one another, to themselves, to their world, and to other content areas. Through experimenting with different art forms and processes, students learn to take risks through exploration and to develop flexible thinking skills, envisioning from different vantage points and responding to new possibilities in the creative process. Thus, arts integration cultivates and provides an arena to display the varying multiple intelligences. The Arts also create a learning place that is inclusive for all students. The benefits of this model extend beyond students. The nature of integration fosters collaboration amongst all stakeholders as learners; students, teachers, parents, administrators, and community. Such collaborative relationships contribute to increased learner satisfaction, interest, and success, and lead to the development of a sense of community of practice in the school. Doral will provide a new excellent education choice for the children of Jefferson County School District (JCSD). Doral will have an anti-discriminatory open admissions policy serving any student in grades K-12, who would qualify to attend a traditional public school in Colorado. The School will not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, ancestry, or need for special education services in Doral s school admissions policy.
- School grade level
- K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Educational program category
- STEAM/STEM
- Student enrollment
- 173
- Year school opened
- 2016-2017