Great opportunity for eligible students to discover the Imago Dei experience!
Contact Ms. Solís for further information or to register
at (520) 882-4008 or email peggy(at)imagodeischool.org
Thank you Saint Francis In The Valley Episcopal Church for your generous spirit. With some help from our 5th grade scholars, they gifted each of our families with a very colorful and yummy Easter basket!
We’ve kicked off our annual campaign to raise scholarships for Imago Dei students! Our goal this fall is to raise 5 full scholarships ($75,000) to provide deserving students everything they need to achieve their full potential. The campaign started just this week and we have already received more than $6,000 from our generous community to help our children learn, thrive and succeed!
Your investment in Imago Dei’s children lasts a lifetime! The support you provide our students today changes the course of their lives, as they navigate from the world they find themselves in toward the world they dream for themselves. You can help, and your contribution matters, no matter how much you can afford to give!
Mark 12:42-44: But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
Your generosity creates a community of caring, curiosity, creativity and kindness. The teachers, staff and children of Imago Dei thank you for your generous support!
Click on this link to donate today!
This month, we give special thanks to Beach Fleischman CPAs, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church & St. Francis in the Valley Episcopal Church, who have given our students backpacks filled with school supplies to kick off the year! Thank you for your generosity and your thoughtful efforts to help our students succeed!
Imago Dei is a private school because the incredible amounts of time and energy that our teachers give to our students simply would not be possible in the structure of a public or charter school.
In this era of standardized tests and the increasingly narrow metrics that are used to evaluate educational success, dedicated, qualified, caring teachers are absolutely critical to providing quality education. We believe that teachers and students must be accountable to objective standards, but the value of a qualified, passionate, enthusiastic teacher in a young child’s life is immeasureable.
The reason our model so effectively transforms the lives of students is that our teachers care about our children as people and communicate their concern for them every day. They provide innovative, differentiated, project-based lessons, which require high energy from the teachers and give children many different ways to learn. They set high standards of scholarship and behavior and hold our children to them. They engage students in ways that address their interests as people and show them the value and joy of learning. Finally, our teachers pay attention to our children and their families, listening and discovering what each child needs to succeed and offering it to them with kindness, compassion and understanding. The energy and dedication it takes to do all of these things successfully is staggering, but our teachers give it every day.
Our model requires that teachers spend nine hours a day each in close relationships with a very small number of children, who are struggling to achieve and to overcome difficult challenges; and the bonds our teachers and students form are the basis of our students’ success.
By communicating to each and every child how important they are as people, our teachers give our students hope and opportunities to succeed. Children succeed at Imago Dei because they know that they matter, and they learn that they have talents and abilities that other people admire and treasure, that they can let themselves dream because they have mentors and teachers here who will help them achieve their dreams. Our teachers’ devotion, caring and expertise are our program; our curriculum and our model are the vehicles through which our teachers express their devotion.
Being pro-education means being pro-teacher.
We talk a lot about students at Imago Dei—how our educational model is student-centered, how we treat students as people with individual learning styles, how students achieve more academically at Imago Dei compared with public schools—but our teachers actually teach better at Imago Dei than they would at public schools.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics (a branch of the U.S. Department of Education), private school teachers are more satisfied, have more positive influence on individual students and participate more in extracurricular activities. Teachers who teach at schools like Imago Dei reported the highest satisfaction with their class sizes, colleagues, administration and discipline, and teacher satisfaction translates directly into student performance. Students at schools using Imago Dei’s model outperform public school students on standardized tests by more than 10 percentage points in science, more than 8 percentage points in reading, and more than 5 percentage points in math. Happy Teachers equal Happy Students equal Academic Achievements!
Read the whole report for yourself here.
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