Expeditionary Learning Academic Overview
The mission of Mosaic School, Inc. is to enhance, support and promote creative and critical thinking as well as problem solving skills in the building of life-long learners and productive citizens to create a better global society. Mosaic School’s aim is to address the creative and intuitive nature of the whole child by satisfying human desire to create, interpret, understand, express and enjoy learning and discovering by engaging students academically and fostering critical thinking skills. The goal of Mosaic is to “increase student achievement through academic and organizational innovation”. Mosaic is dedicated to ensuring the following:
- A strong focus on ensure academic success for each student
- A refusal to accept excuses for poor performance
- A willingness to implement a variety of strategies
- Intensive and sustained efforts to involve parents/guardians and the community
- An environment of mutual respect and collaboration
- A passion for continuous improvement and professional growth
Mosaic offers a student-centered and active learning environment. Curriculum will be interdisciplinary and capitalize on integrating concepts from the arts into the “core” subject areas, as well as most courses in the curriculum. Teachers will use thematic units that include ideas and activities related to the arts as a way to capitalize on addressing various learning modalities among students and to promote critical thinking and problem solving as students make connections between disciplines.
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"Mosaic Middle School is committed to the proposition that each child deserves the finest possible educational opportunities. As a preparatory institution grounded in the finest traditions of a liberal arts education, Mosaic stresses the continuing importance of the core subjects, with particular emphasis on reading, writing and problem solving."