Academy Prep Center of Tampa
Academy Prep is designed to promote an appreciation for hard work, growth in personal responsibility, and academic and social skills. To accomplish these guiding principles, our programs are aimed at educating "the whole child."
Birthday: Summer 2003
Hometown: Tampa, Florida
Email: apt@academyprep.org
Website:
Contact Info:
Fax: 813-248.5602
Phone: 813-248.5600
Address: 1407 East Columbus Drive
Networks:
Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg, Joan Fortune Campus
Academy Prep Foundation, Incorporated
Academy Prep Graduate Support Program
Favorite Quotes:
- "Transforming our communitities... One child at a time."
- "Our dream is that our students will return to make a difference in our community. We wanted to open doors."
- Jeff Fortune, founder of Academy Prep
- "If they don't want to conform, unlike other schools, we don't have to keep them."
- Jeff Fortune, founder of Academy Prep
- "Academy Prep is my home away from home. I really feel like a family."
- Jackie, a seventh grader
- "I look forward to that spark in their eye. We weed out the ones that don't want to be here."
- Anita Wash-Morrow, Guidance counselor
- "I think the teacher has a lot to do with how they inspire that interest in the kids. I think sometimes they are not interested because the teacher hasn’t sparked that interest in them. I think when you have somebody that’s good, that understands the middle school mentality of if it’s not cool they don’t want to do it & then reach for those projects that are something they can identify with & enjoy.”
- Caroline Goslee, School Principal
- "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
- Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
- "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
- "The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
- "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
- Chinese Proverb
- "You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with a greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
- "Education increases options and opens avenues to a better life. Education is a gift."
- Daniel Anseeuw, Bussinessman
- "The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller, American Author
- "What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out."
- John Holt, American Author
- "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
Favorite Songs:
Proper Education, Pink Floyd
Favorite Lyrics: Education, Ray Davies
In a deep dark jungle, long time ago
Lived a lonesome caveman
He was a solitary soul
And he spent his playtime
Chewing meat from bones.
He didn't know how to talk much
He only knew how to groan
Then he lifted up his hands and reached to the sky
Let out a yell and no one replied.
Frustration and torment tore him inside
Then he fell to the ground and he cried and he cried.
But then education saved the day.
He learned to speak and communicate
Education saved the day.
He thanked God for the friends he made.
'Cos everybody needs an education
Everybody needs an education.
Black skin, red skin, yellow or white,
Everybody needs to read and write
Everybody needs an education.
Thank the day when that primitive man
Learned to talk with his brothers
And live off the land.
He left his cave and he moved far away
And he lived with his friends in a house that they'd made
He learned to think and to work with his brain
And he astounded his friends with all the knowledge he gained
He wrote it down on a rock that he found
And he showed all his friends and they passed it around
And then education came that day.
The day it came was a sacred day.
Education came that day
He thanked God for the friends he'd made.
Well man built a boat and he learned how to sail
And he traveled far and wide
Then he looked up above saw the stars in the sky
So he learned how to fly.
Thanks to all the mathematicians
And the inventors with their high I.Q.s
And the professors in their colleges
Trying to feed me knowledge
That I know I'll never use.
Thank you sir for the millions of words
That you've handed me down and you've told me to learn
Teacher, teach me how to read and write,
You can teach me about biology,
But you can't tell me what I am living for
'Cos that's still a mystery.
Teacher, teach me about nuclear physics
And teach me about the structure of man,
But all your endless calculations
Can't tell me why I am.
No you can't tell me why I am,
No you can't tell me why I am.
Everybody needs education,
Open Universities, education.
Every race, every creed, education.
And every little half-breed.
Every nationality, education.
All the little people need education.
Eskimos and pygmies need
And even aborigines, education.
Well, physics and geography, education.
Philosophy and history, education.
Science and biology, education,
Geometry and poetry, education.
Well, education, education, education, education
Activities: From A.M. to P.M.
- 7:10 Breakfast
- 7:30 Convocation: prayer, pledge of allegiance, discussion of upcoming events and what we are doing wrong as a school, acknowledge students who successfully and responsibly completed their tasks the previous day.
- 7:40-2:25 Classwork: English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Spanish, Art, Music, Drama, Physical Education.
- 11:05-11:40 Lunch and Recess: Unwind and recharge for the long hours ahead.
- 2:30-3:30 Tutoring and Campus Cleaning: Mop floors, pick up trash, clean bathrooms.
- 3:50-4:40 Required After School Activity Period: Dance, Karate, Chess.
- 5:00-6:00 Monday-Thursday: Evening study for students not maintaining As and Bs on all graded courses.
- First and Third Saturday of Each Month is Required Saturday Activity: Field trip to supplement classroom instruction.
Interests:
- Personal responsibility.
- Bring students to grade-level and beyond.
- Pride.
- Strengthening students bodies and minds to enrich their souls.
- Volunteers.
- Community service.
- Museum and park visits.
- Summer camp with academics, swimming lessons and extra-curricular activities.
- Prepare graduates for college prep high schools.
- Donations.
- Committment.
8th Grade Graduation
Volunteer at Tutoring Session
Thank You Sponsors!
Sketching in Art Class
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