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Welcome to Honors Academy

Welcome to Honors Academy online, your official source of information about our school, our students and our community. Honors Academy is an open enrollment charter school in the state of Texas. As a public school our programs are fully accredited and recognized by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Honors Academy provides an innovative self-paced environment designed to meet the needs of all of today's students.

Honors Academy continues to build strong and clear partnerships between parents, teachers, and students. We value and promote the creativity of both the child and the teacher. Children may be different in the manner in which they best learn or in their rate of progress in the various subject areas. Teachers may also be different in how they organize and approach the teaching process. Therefore, parent/school communication is very important.

School should be an adventure, but it must be comfortable for children; they must feel encouraged to continue to make strong efforts and to try new skills. Finding the balance for a child is a delicate process that is most successful when the teacher and the parent are working closely together. Honors Academy is dedicated to assisting all students to develop their talents fully and to fostering a desire for life-long learning, by providing a safe and positive learning environment that respects the diversity of our population.

It is our hope to be of great value to you in your quest for choices in education. To get a better sense of our school and achievements, we invite you to explore our web site and visit us often.

Sincerely,

Troy D. Meeks
Superintendent of Schools

About Honors Academy

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Honors Academy is an innovative self-paced learning environment designed to meet the needs of today's students. Using the best in technology-based learning systems, Honors Academy's unique curriculum integrates technology, projects, state-adopted text and traditional instructor lead methods to facilitate students functioning to their highest potential. This allows students, on an individual, subject-by-subject basis, to maximize their learning effort. Students progress at a more rapid rate in areas of personal strength and move more slowly in areas of individual challenge, allowing for thorough comprehension. This method of education is excellent for serving a diverse population of students.

Honors Academy's mission is to server exceptional learners at both ends of the spectrum, with a special heart for those students considered "at-risk." By partnering with local colleges and universities, accelerated students earn both high school and college credit simultaneously. Other programs focus on students whose educational career may have been hindered by life circumstances to get them back on track and successfully complete their high school career and prepare them for post secondary education or a solid career.

Honors Academy Mission Statement

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Honors Academy will equip all Pre-K-12 students with literacy skills necessary in the 21st century: the ability to read, write, speak and use information with clarity and precision, as well as the ability to participate responsibly in the world of work and in the life of their communities. Honors Academy will empower students to become confident, self-motivated problem solvers by providing individualized learning plans in a collaborative student centered environment.

Core Strategies

1. Create and manage programs and services that provide individualized learning opportunities in residences and classrooms

2. Assure that every student is a successful learner through the use of an individualized learning plan

3. Ensure each student has equal access to a well-defined and challenging curriculum

4. Demand high standards of achievement and expectations from all student

5. Provide a variety of professional growth opportunities to all staff

6. Utilize technology effectively as teaching, learning and assessment tools

7. Collaborate with health and human service agencies to reduce barriers that impede student learning

8. Establish policies and procedures that include stakeholders in decisions making and sharing responsibilities

9. Utilize a variety of evaluations, assessments and "best practices" research to continuously seek improvement.

To help all children realize their potential, at Honors Academy we:

• Create challenging, supportive, and individualized learning opportunities.

• Demand high standards of achievement for students and staff

• Use technology in the teaching and learning process

• Provide a challenging and accredited curriculum

• Identify and address the learning styles of each student

• Promote parental and community involvement as appropriate

• Expect teamwork from students, teachers and staff

• Value diversity

• Value and respect each child as an individual

• Celebrate and reward success