Dekalb Academy of Technology and Environment

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Dekalb Academy of Technology and Environment is a charter school in Lithonia, Georgia. The school has about 300 students in kindergarten through seventh grade(as of 2006), although the school will add an eighth grade in the future.[citation needed]. The Headmaster is Maury Wills.

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[edit] Academics

The mission of the school is to give its students a background in technology and study of the environment by engaging in environmental projects and taking technology classes daily. The teachers consists of switching classes for students for extra practice, and going outside every day. The specials of the week for every class are Technology, Spanish, Music (for grades 1-4), Art, and Physical Education. The school has a special Discovery Gifted Program for those who succeed and take pride in what they do. Extras like Discovery and band are included into your grade like all specials. The school band consists of three levels, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. The school band is for grades 5-7 and takes part in many activities like parades, performances, and competitions. Specialized academic programs include the Scotts Foresman Reading Program and Everyday Mathematics math curriculum. The level of standards is a 9.5 of ten.

[edit] Clubs

The school's clubs include the National Beta Club (Junior Beta), Technology Club (DAtech club) , Spanish Club ( El Circulo Espanol) , and Girl Scouts (brownies, Daises and Juniors,) and Boy Scouts 1833 (Boy Scouts and cub scouts tiger cub and junior cub).For the 2007-2008 school year, the school is now participating in an Atlanta Area sports program which includes Basketball, American football , Softball, Track, and Cheerleading. The school is very happy and hopes to make it successful. This year they also have a brand new news team which consists of the Newspaper club and the broadcasting club. The news broadcasting have already came up with six people in the club. The team has, Collin Robinson (Reporter), Alyssa Armstrong (Weathergirl) , Kelsey Martin/Kitty Cat Kelsey (Anchorgirl) , Justin Lewis/Dr. Lewis (Anchorman) , Morgan Draine ( Reporter) , and Jerimiah Callahan ( Cameraman, Reporter) Mr. Chaddrick Owes the Director of Technology for the school is the (Executive Director) for the team. Mr. Owes is responsible for putting together this team and training each member of the team. Each of the six students are very successful in the academics program and had been carefully selected. These clubs are extracurricular activities, and participating students must have a grade-point average of at least 3.3.

[edit] Setting

The school grounds suggest the school's connection to the study of the environment and features a large garden of flowers and vegetables and a pond containing fish, beavers, turtles, and other aquatic organisms. These features are often incorporated into academic activities. The school consists of growing flowers, berries, and vegetables every week for every class. The setting of the school grounds is not exactly your typical school ground. They use dirt gravel for parking spaces to save up energy. Every piece of technology is powered by hydroelectric energy so that they can conserve their energy. Every class has a recycling bin to recycle for things to use in the future. To link with technology every classroom has an electronic interwrite smartboard for things like math help, whiteboard, and internet. Also there are computers in every classroom. To link with their academic stage for language arts there are classroom libraries in every classroom 5 and one half inch tall each shelf. To link with science there is at least one living organism in every classroom to examine. If not in any classroom they will be examiming many other things posted in their classroom like rocks, and exotic plants.

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