Skyline Education has college prep standards-based curriculum, integrated with the Arts, Athletics, and supported by Arizona and National standards. All schools are incorporated together with Skyline Schools, a system of charter schools, established in 2000, with a proven track record of education in Arizona. Skyline Schools have established the curriculum foundation. The curriculum is continually updated and developed by teachers within the system through Action Research, Best Practices, and Professional Learning Communities, providing vertical and horizontal alignment for grade and content levels across the schools. While the Skyline’s curriculum provides a baseline, there is flexibility for modifications based on student populations and needs for individual schools.
All schools are designed to support state and local academic standards. Each school’s curriculum is aligned to the Arizona State Grade Articulated Standards and meets and in a number of areas exceeds those standards. The curriculum also addresses other national standards, which together with the primary standards establish a strong foundation of knowledge, grade-by-grade, for all students, to increase achievement. The level at which the core academic subject shall be taught at each school supports the following:
Arizona State Grade Articulated and National Standards: Arizona Prep and Arts School collaborates with Professional Learning Communities within the different schools of the Skyline districts to ensure that Arizona State Grade Articulated and National Standards are vertically and horizontally aligned. Objectives from content levels are complimentary in order to enhance inter- and transdisciplinary learning; also, objectives are aligned from one grade level to the next, and across grade levels to increase and build foundational success.
Arts in the Curriculum: Skyline Schools offer an integrated and comprehensive performance and visual arts education, aligned to the Arizona State Grade Articulated and National Standards, as well as the National Standards for Arts Education. Within the disciplines of Performing and Visual Arts, students in grades 5-8 experience and create as they progress through the programs of dance, theater, music, multiple-medium and -dimension art, photography, graphics and beyond. Students create, relate and evaluate from beginning through advanced level by practical, written, and performance-based assessment.
Standards for the 21st Century: Skyline Schools offer rigor and relevance that supports Differentiated Instruction by increasing both the knowledge and experience acquired during a lesson or unit for each student. As students are exposed to the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and are able to utilize what they are learning through actually doing. The Rigor and Relevance model in a well-researched, efficient and effective tool for classroom instruction and increasing student achievement.
