GIVE ME BEAUTY IN THE INWARD SOUL; AND MAY THE OUTWARD AND INWARD MAN BE AT ONE.
What is Classical Learning?
Arapaho Classical Magnet is founded on an educational principle first practiced by the ancient Greeks: that a complete education must address the complete student. Our educational experience extends beyond the academic to encompass and nurture the mind, body, and character as equal parts of the whole student. We interconnect academic, artistic, and real life components through seven years of a rigorous, classical education and prepare capable citizens with a strong academic foundation, a positive self-concept, and an understanding of their responsibilities within the larger community.
- Falcon PRIDE
- House System fosters community
- Student Leadership
- Social-Emotional Learning enhances students’ skills in collaborating and communicating.
- After school student clubs that extend student interest, learning and community-building
- Strong, cohesive Community and PTA supports the foundation of our school, which is our students and teachers.
- Creative Arts units integrate Visual Arts with Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies.
- Grade-level-wide, each nine-weeks these specially designed learning extensions help students grow in their understanding of how history, reading, writing, and the arts connect in various civilizations of the past with our modern world.
- These experiences deepen the learning process as students correlate, incorporate and express their learning through all the arts.
The Stage, the Set, the Scene are the Bones of the Arts—Acting its Breath and Life
Theatre and Media Arts are the vitality of ACM’s esprit de corps that vertically aligns with
- Communication Arts, Theatre Arts and Visual Arts at West Jr High Arts & Technology Magnet, as well as
- Leadership at Westwood Jr High: the Math, Science, Technology Magnet.
Theatre develops and equips our students with lifelong skills of
- Self-Esteem and Confidence
- Imagination
- Empathy and Tolerance
- Cooperation and Collaboration
- Concentration and Focus
- Public-Speaking and Communication
- Problem-Solving
Theatre Arts provides history, culture, and support to our literacy initiative. We focus on the classical elements of theatre. Students learn about acting, movement, diction, playwriting, play analysis, costume design, costume construction, set design, set construction, props, stage management and directing.
Media Arts supports student communication by creatively utilizing new visual and audio technologies. Students learn about storyboarding, scriptwriting, film acting, digital storytelling, camera techniques, angles and composition, editing, and production.
- News
- Broadcasting
Media is the Wings of Civilization’s Communication
Technology has always been the expression of human comprehension of science and math, the outward sign of civilization’s progress. The polymaths of history combined math, science, history, linguistics and all the arts as they applied the past to their modern thinking and experience. Theatre does the same and connects to the modern world with echoes from the past.
Every civilization has taken small steps forward in their learning when they use past as prologue. Moreover humankind often leaps ahead as technology catapults us into a renaissance, a new way of perceiving our world.
Robotics is the technology of our modern age, our 21st Century Renaissance.
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
Our Mission
Arapaho Classical Magnet cultivates a learning environment that provides essential opportunities to create and grow.
Falcons
SOAR HIGHER • OBSERVE FARTHER
ADVANCE FASTER • MANEUVER SHARPER
