Da Vinci Academy at Corona Student Center provides students with a real-world, project-based, college-preparatory curriculum. We create and support a culture of high expectations for all, where students grow in knowledge and wisdom, develop new skills, and form safe and strong relationships with teachers, peers, parents, and the community.
Mission and Vision
The Da Vinci Academy incorporates the following principles, which Da Vinci used throughout his life to discover and innovate:
Curiosita (insatiable curiosity)
Dimostrazione (ability to persevere in the face of failure)
Senzasione (continual refinement of the senses)
Sfumato (willingness to accept ambiguity)
Arte/Scienza (ability to integrate art and science)
Corporalita (continual refinement of physical grace and fitness)
Connessione (recognition and appreciation of the interconnectedness of all things)
We do this by integrating the arts throughout the curriculum, providing a rigorous, individualized curriculum, and challenging the students with individual and group work.
Why Da Vinci Academy?
Subjects are taught in large blocks of time for language arts and mathematics. Lessons are individualized according to informal and formal assessments. The last hour of the day is spent doing enrichment activities designed to make the curriculum come alive, such as dramatic arts, visual arts, physical education, and leadership classes.
On-Site Instruction Days – Monday 8:20 am – 1 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 8:20 am – 3:00 pm
State-Credentialed Teachers
Assistant Classroom Educator in each classroom
Personalized Learning
How Do We Personalize Learning for Each Student?
Each Corona Student Center student is valued as an individual. Teachers know each student both as a human being and as a learner. The learning environment is designed so that each student has time and space to pursue academic and personal learning goals through a variety of means. Authentic and real-world learning experiences are consistently prioritized over traditional textbook methods. Corona Student Center learners are empowered with knowledge of their preferred learning style, tools they can use to master a learning goal, and significant choice in the learning process. Collaborating with their teacher, each student creates an individual learning path whereby s/he can attain measurable and achievable weekly and yearly goals (at least one year’s growth for students on or above grade level, 1.5 for students below grade level).
The Community is our Classroom
Students are invited to several field trips throughout the year, which correspond to the history and/or science topics discussed in class.
