Our school offers:
● Maximum 1 staff to 10 student instructional ratio
● Daily SEL evidence-based instruction
● Daily Mindfulness and Community Circles
● Calming and sensory room
● Evidence-based behavioral management systems
● Small group and individual intervention and enrichment sessions
● Assistive technology available to support students
● Family Engagement programming throughout the school year
● Parent Resource Center to engage and empower families as educational partners
Disability and Instruction Style
“CHI Academy is not built for an ideal student. It is built for every student – every learner
profile, every family background, every cultural identify, every ability level. Our whole
child model exists because the whole child shows up every day.”
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Ages 5–11 Kindergarten through 5th grade
20 Students per class — far below the regional average of 25–30
1:10 Staff-to-student ratio — 2 adults in every classroom
Six Curriculum Domains – Heart * Voice* Mind* Curiosity * Spirit * Agency
Foundational Beliefs
• Every child is capable of academic excellence when placed in an environment that inspires curiosity and supports the whole person.
• Social-emotional development is not separate from academic learning — it is the prerequisite and the foundation for all learning.
• Language and literacy are the master keys that unlock every domain of knowledge and every pathway in life.
• Mathematical thinking is a habit of mind, not a set of procedures — it develops through exploration, reasoning, and authentic problem solving.
• Science and exploration cultivate the analytical skills students carry into every domain of learning and life.
• Creativity and innovation are not enrichment — they are essential cognitive capacities that every child deserves to develop.
• AI literacy is no longer optional. Students who cannot engage critically, ethically, and skillfully with artificial intelligence will be disadvantaged in every domain of
adult life.
Social-Emotional Development
At CHI Academy, social-emotional learning is not a program we add on — it is the air students breathe. Every classroom routine, every Community Circle, every interaction between teacher and child is an intentional act of nurturing the emotional intelligence and self-regulation skills that make all other learning possible.
Language & Early
Literacy
Language is the instrument through which children think, connect, create, and change the world. At CHI Academy, literacy instruction is not a subject — it is a lens through which every experience is examined and every idea is expressed. We develop readers who love to read and writers who have something powerful to say.
Mathematical
Thinking
Mathematics is not a collection of facts to memorize — it is a way of thinking about the world. At CHI Academy, we develop mathematicians who reason deeply, persist through challenges, and see numbers as tools for understanding and changing their communities. Every student is a math person.
Exploration & Science
Scientists are simply people who refuse to stop asking why. At CHI Academy, every child is a scientist — observing, questioning, investigating, and constructing understanding of the natural world. Science is how we teach students to think, not
just what we teach them to know.
Creativity & Innovation
Creativity is not a gift a lucky few are born with — it is a muscle every child can develop. At CHI Academy, the arts are not extras. They are how students process meaning, communicate ideas, solve problems in new ways, and discover their own unique voice in the world. In an age of AI, creativity and originality are the most distinctly human capacities we can cultivate.
AI & Digital Literacy
The children entering CHI Academy's kindergarten will graduate high school and enter the workforce in the early 2040s — a world shaped at every level by artificial intelligence. AI literacy is not a technology class. It is a new form of citizenship education. At CHI Academy, every student will learn to use AI as a tool, understand AI as a system, evaluate AI critically, and shape AI ethically — because their future demands nothing less.