Featured Core Knowledge Schools

West Manor Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia, Arlington International Leadership School in Jackson, Tennessee, and East Texas Christian Academy in Tyler, Texas, are three outstanding Core Knowledge Visitation and Official Schools being recognized at this year’s Core Knowledge National Conference in Washington, D.C.  

Arlington International Leadership School

With the help of the Core Knowledge curriculum and its emphasis on the cultures of other parts of the world, the students of Arlington International Leadership School seem to be world travelers! At their International Festival, students “visited” countries like Thailand, Egypt, Costa Rica, Mexico, and China. Arlington students also demonstrate their knowledge of the history, geography, and culture of the United States during events like Colonial Day and the fourth-grade Parade of States. Arlington International Leadership School, of Jackson, Tennessee, will be recognized as a Core Knowledge Visitation School at the 2007 National Conference.

West Manor Elementary School

The pictures displaying the work of students from kindergarten through fifth grade at West Manor Elementary demonstrate two things — the comprehensiveness of the Core Knowledge curriculum and how much fun the students are having!

Kindergarteners learn their five senses with boxes full of ways to test their own senses of taste, touch, sight, hearing, and smell.

First graders learn poetry not only through the texts themselves but also through illustration and self reflection.

Knowledge of the body’s internal systems and the anatomy of cells spans several years of the Core Knowledge Sequence and is applied in great projects created by West Manor second, third, and fifth graders.

West Manor Elementary School of Atlanta, Georgia, will be recognized as a Core Knowledge Visitation School at the 2007 National Conference.

East Texas Christian Academy

At East Texas Christian Academy, hands-on learning in all subject areas takes center stage. On any given day, students can be found . . .

… dissecting flowers in seventh-grade science class, …

recreating famous early American documents such as the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence like East Texas second graders, . . .

… observing decomposition and its role in the food chain during third grade studies of ecology, and sculpting copies of Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” in eighth-grade art class.

East Texas Christian Academy, of Tyler, Texas, will be recognized as a Core Knowledge Official School at the 2007 National Conference.

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