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It starts with the premise of caring for high school students’ future by providing them a quality education to be successful. CHAED will deliver innovative methods to improve and achieve academic excellence, reduce the number of high school dropouts, and give students the opportunity to excel in higher learning and compete with today’s challenge.

In today’s world, it is important that high school students stay current with technology and information, engage in real life applications, and be discipline in their study in order to be competitive. This school will provide the competitive edge.

I think many parents want a public high school to serve the neighborhoods of Midtown, Oak Park, East Sac, River Park, College Greens, and Tahoe Park. CHAED can provide parents another choice of school for their kids. This school will be unique and vibrant to downtown Sacramento and can serve as a hub for community participation and collaboration. Once more, it starts with caring for our children knowing they hold the key to a better future and recognizing their potential to make a positive difference in society. I hope to make CHAED become a reality so that it can give our kids a prosperous, healthy, and meaningful future.
 

MISSION STATEMENT:

CHAED believes creativity is the soul for architects, engineers, and professional designers and most importantly a vehicle to solve problems, present innovative ideas, and give sound solutions. The school will enable students first hand what they need to know to become an architect, engineer, or professional designer, furthermore, it wants each student to have an appreciation for how creativity can process its way through the curriculum as the lifeline for design and analytical thinking. CHAED is a network of students, parents, educators, and professional leaders all learning, collaborating, and committed to an innovative program of study, while integrating the design process with the mastery of a strong liberal arts education. This unique kind of network will give importance and value to an education students can learn from and succeed.

CHAED introduces students to the theories and practices of architecture, design and construction, the building industry and related community issues, engineering design and technical applications, integrating them thematically into a rigorous academic high school curriculum. In participating in CHAED's program, students will see how mathematics, writing and communicating, and social construct through architecture, engineering, and design is used alive all the time in real world applications. The school will develop in graduates the tools necessary to be confident in their choice of career and their choice of university or post-secondary school. Equally important, students will leave CHAED with a sense of purpose, an identity, and a role to society as a positive difference maker.

EDUCATIONAL APPROACH:

CHAED is dedicated to recognize the importance of each student's natural abilities and intelligence and cultivate them to reach higher potential. Equally important, the school will recognize and nurture the students and staff of varied cultural and social backgrounds to achieve full intellectual and social potential. Each student has the personal support of an advisory teacher who monitors that student's progress and offers guidance in developing a rewarding academic identity. In addition to the personal support, students will learn hands on experience through mentorship programs. Knowing students as individuals, teachers encourage them to reflect, develop skills, take risks, and follow a passion.

CURRICULUM FOCUS

CHAED will teach students the fundamentals of liberal arts have in connecting to real world application so that it does not become static, disconnected, and all but abstractions in the learning process. The curriculum will integrate liberal arts and the disciplines of architecture, engineering, and design to create a symbiotic relationship for an understanding and appreciation of how both relate to each other. To support the symbiotic relationship, CHAED will apply the concepts of “awareness” and “learn by doing” approach. As a result, students will gain reflection of the real world, discover their interest, and prepare them to be active, life-long learners.

CHAED will offer not only the core subject areas but also a strong selection of elective classes and programs that will be an additional key to building a successful charter school. Examples are: fine arts, music, business, information technology, second language, photography, athletic program, mentoring program, personal development, health, etc.

CUSTOMER FOCUS:

CHAED will focus on:
1. a safe and friendly school environment,
2. character building of each student in terms of responsibility, integrity, becoming a teamplayer, and respect,
3. preparing students to be good citizens, and
4. students' compassion and humility for themselves, others at school, and members of the broader community.

OUTCOMES AND GOALS:

Upon graduating from CHAED, each student will have:

1. a clearly demonstrated set of academic skills,
2. confidently chosen a career path that they feel proud of,
3. a complete and sound portfolio of their work,
4. internship experience in the workplace and volunteer time in community service,
5. a personal development plan beyond high school,
6. eligible university or post-secondary transferable courses,
7. effective studying tools to improve their higher-education learning experience, and
8. a diploma!

Are you interested and willing to support CHAED's mission? If so, together we can develop a school where young students can reach for their dreams and recognize their potential for success!

Please contact me if you are interested in becoming a board member or part of the planning committee at nrcruz@sbcglobal.net. Thank you!