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Academy Prep

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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

 

    School, Nirvana

 

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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