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welcome to chime time is an acronym for Community honoring inclusive model education inclusive education at chime Institute means that children who have the natural demographics of the surrounding region including children who develop typically children who speak languages other than English at home children with special needs and children who are gifted learn side-by-side X model allows for the individual needs of each child to be dressed in a manner that enhance was it Embraces each child strength while also addressing their learning needs please allow me to introduce you to our Administration team doctor Aaron Studio exec director Shelby Doherty rtk through 4th grade principal Cathy Jamison are fifth through eighth grade principal and this presentation we're going to go over X history and educational philosophy and overview of our school program and how we build our community our mission here is to support an inclusive environment where children ages birth to 14 years of varying abilities including children who are gifted typically developing who have disabilities achieved their maximum potential chime Institute is a nonprofit organization established in 1990 it is a leader in the development and implementation of a unique model of inclusive education The Institute begin with a Federal grant that allowed us to establish An Early Childhood Program the Cal State University Northridge the success of the Early Childhood Program coupled with the needs of the community and sound research prompted parents and Cal State Northridge faculty to develop a charter school in 2001 with that success a charter middle school was developed in 2003 the two schools were merged into a transitional kindergarten through eighth-grade School in 2010 and named chime Institute Schwarzenegger Community School Chimes serves as a model for educators through its partnership with Cal State Northridge is Michael D Eisner College of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District it facilitates research opportunities and regularly hosts visitors from surrounding. as far as way as Japan Sweden and the United Kingdom who are interested in replicating chime success and their own schools and communities let's take a look at our charm Charter program now let's take a look at our program who are students what the curriculum and assessments look like some school specific information and then how do you get in our Lottery let me just take a moment to brag and say time has been the only charter school in the state of California to be named Charter School of the Year twice once in 2004 and once in 2016 children learn best through activities that challenge the abilities they have and motivate them to reach for new ones at chime we follow each child lead and build on each child's unique abilities and interest it's the natural learning process we emphasize playful fun activities that meet the child's developmental needs without losing the interest of the child time serves transitional kindergarten through 8th grade transitional kindergarten 40K its resistance return five between September 1st and December 2nd of the school year what are some of the benefits of a t-case school or a span school as band School allows for long-term family involvement that means your child would be enrolled with the from 9 to 10 years possibly it also provides mentoring opportunities for our older students can be pure models and act as role models for our younger by being reading buddies and kindergarten such as you see in the picture here anna co-teaching model general education and special education teachers are Partners in teaching planning and assessment of all the students list approach brings a variety of strengths to the classroom teams meet in advance of teaching to plan strategies to address the needs of each individual student in the classroom this team also includes related service provider by embedding services in the general education class related service staff such as occupational therapist physical therapist adaptive physical education teachers speech and language pathologist provide targeted support to students with disabilities that benefit all these experts train the teachers and staff to implement evidence-based strategies that benefit all students in this way the staff who work with children most often can Implement specialized interventions on an ongoing basis it is our goal to educate the whole child so we take a holistic approach which means that every student receives instruction each week from credentialed art instructors music instructor cheat codes time in the library with the librarian disengage Hands-On instruction for all children is part of their regular schedule and not considered as special as some others have designated due to budget constraints time is an open enrollment tuition free public school with no specific requirements for admission as an independent charter school in Rome open to any Resident in the state of California we currently have families from 44 different zip codes attending in a typical School setting when a student enters the school the school identifies the student and send them to specific if you speak another language at home besides English you'll be in the English language program if your student is gifted and talented they'll ask you to join the gate program if you have special needs you'll be asked to join the special education program you typically developing you'll be in the general education classroom they are basically running three to four different schools on one campus what we do here it's time is different we bring the most valuable resource the school has their Highly Educated staff into general education classroom all students are educated together in the same question when you often find 345 adults in the same classroom providing instruction we perceive the world through more than our eyes here's we smell we touch and we taste here at chime we have a constructivist philosophy which means we use the approach to learning that holds that students must actively construct or make their own knowledge and that reality is determined by the experiences we also use the magic and project-based learning project-based learning allows for the discovery on a variety of levels do large units linked to the California common core standards students develop a deeper understanding key Concepts make connections between content areas and practice skills needed to apply New Concepts in addition students learn social and problem-solving skills as they work together as you can probably tell from the information previously provided we're not attest crazy school we don't believe that a snapshot in time when a student puts a pencil to piece of paper or click the button on an online assessment once per year is necessarily the best way to measure participate in the annual state testing administered in the spring of each year and we are very proud of our students and staff and happily report that we have outscored the district and state every year the cast has been administered we often get asked if we assess for gifted and talented Learners yes we do we partner with LAUSD to provide is Los Angeles Unified School District school psychologist when did mr. Test in most schools once the students identified as gifted they said congratulations you belong on the gate program is located somewhere else we keep our gifted students in the same code Christian's that they've been with since kindergarten and we enriched that students curriculum to meet their needs all students in the class benefit from the interaction and end up thinking provided by the gifted student we differentiate the instruction adjustments made based on an individual students need so we can provide access to the Core Curriculum the content the process the product the curriculum can be extended modified or accommodated based on the ability level of the student access is on learning project-based learning constructivist Technics direct instruction and a variety of documentation methods help us do this game strategies are used in every classroom and depth and complexity icons are recognized by all the stuff fundraising yes we do fundraising it is a Facts of Life but you probably already knew that all schools do some sort of fundraising what's different with us is that 100% of the fundraising goes directly into the daily activities of the students our fundraising activities support our art or music arlibrary rpe program your money invested every day on campus now for some school specifics school starts at 8:05 for Middle School grades 6 through 8 834 grades 1 through 5 940 K in Kinder at the end of the day we close that out in the exact opposite tikkanen Kinder and it two grades one through three and at 2:40 grades 4 and 5 and at 2:55 along with middle school 6th through 8th grade supervision is provided for school in our campus opens at 7:45 a.m. for students there is no fee for before-school care is a fee associated with their after-school program those of you looking ahead here's our Middle School bell schedule in a single self-contained classroom but visit classrooms by departments we use a block schedule meaning that Mondays and Wednesdays students will visit. 12 and 3 on Tuesdays and Thursdays they'll visit. Four five and six Friday looks like a typical Middle School schedule or high school schedule you visit all six classes in one day we find this block schedule or extended. Of time allows the teachers and the students to receive in-depth instruction in one single class. For example and science it means a teacher can present a concept they can do an experiment and they can debrief on their results all in the same class. rather than breaking it up over 2 to 3 class. Yes we have an after school program that after school program runs from 2:40 to 5:30 each day this program is run by chime means the same employees that are in the class with your students are the same people stopping the after-school program after-school program provides homework support a snack some structured supervised guided play there is a need for the after-school program and it is $8 per hour currently but that be can be reduced or weighed depending on your free and reduced lunch status we also have an after-school enrichment program Richmond program is provided by independent vendors that come to John to provide this service these programs run between 8 and 10 weeks and they're very exciting engaging programs that the kids love to participate in examples of some of our past classes are animal explorers foreign-language Suma and dance Lego robotics how to be a Jedi Iron Chef Hogwarts Academy your kids will want to sign up trust me we get asked homework yes we have homework at chime but at time homework is intended as a follow-up a reinforced instruction that's already been provided in the classroom We Believe students need the structure study habits as they develop into lifelong learners time spent on homework will vary among grade levels but we want to know we want your feedback on homework so if your child is taking 2 hours to complete the homework assignment that's valuable information for the teachers let them know consequently if your homework taking your student 2 minutes that is also valuable information that you should let the teaching team know yes we provide Sports and their competitive we compete in the San Fernando Valley private school league and the charter schools Association link we offer unisex teams in a variety of sports that just flag football softball soccer volleyball basketball even have swimming on it's a no cut program so if you go out for the team you'll be on the team and you'll get to play and the really cool thing about it is we're very very successful the last time we were allowed to compete pandemic we had an undefeated boys basketball team and our girls for five years in a row were invited to the Division champion ships two times we have one volunteers that's all of you as much as we G we're still one small single school on one campus and we thrive on community involvement we welcome you to contribute your time to run a booth at our annual Carnival drive on a field trip help planning event working our outdoor organic garden any way you see fit to contribute you're welcome to do so now how do you get in entrance to our school is buy a lottery we are required by state law to hold a lottery whenever we receive more applications than we have openings time is always held a lottery are lottery for the 22 23 school year opened on October 1st at 8 a.m. applications are due by February 8th 2022 at 3 p.m. as long as meet that deadline your application will be in the lottery the lottery will be conducted virtually on March 4th 2022 to apply you'll go to chime. School Ms. Matt / signup all online making application complete the information and click submit all you have to do to take more than 5 minutes let's take a look at our campus time is located at 19722 Collier Street in the community of Woodland Hills in the city of Los Angeles the school is at the southwest corner of the intersection of Collier Street and Corbin Avenue in a residential area the campus encompasses 6.51 Acres on one parcel and is bordered by Corbin Avenue to the east Jamilah Avenue to the West Bay residential development to the South and an Orange Grove North across Collier Street existing facilities include to transitional kindergarten classroom 11th standard classrooms and Auditorium with a kitchen and outdoor covered eating area administration building 2 portable classrooms that house for kindergarten classroom and existing P facilities that include the field are you at the hard-court area on garden and Outdoor Classroom let's take a look at Rooms 1 and 2 the transitional kindergarten room in 2019 and 2020 time added new play structures to the kindergarten and teekay play yard as well as anuel Frenchie play structure in the elementary play yard in January of 2020 as you can see the play structure is fun for big kids as well as little kids the play structure itself includes a variety of activities for the children to play on monkey bars slides rock walls musical instruments and sensory and motor activities keep the kids active and engaged while playing with their friends and ramps to make sure the structure itself is accessible to everyone no matter what their Mobility head on over and take a look at some of the first grade classroom this is what a virtual classroom looks like currently as opposed to that same classroom in real life permanent improvements made by chime include the expansion of the existing parking lot curbside drop-off ramps for accessibility and in August of 2015 a new permanent Improvement of two two-story 2540 square foot classroom building with 16 new standard classrooms office has a library and a Technology Center take place in opened up on our campus let's take a look at a middle school classroom are outdoor space includes the PE field track soccer Court Sports Court handball courts tetherball as well as an outdoor classroom and a garden the campus master plan build-out includes 48281 square feet of building space with 31 classrooms that support the full t thank you 8th grade program with a total capacity of 800 students we hope you enjoyed that brief virtual and we hope you're inspired to join our community you can take action and apply now it's time. Schoolmint.net sign up we appreciate your time today and thank you if you have any questions or need further information please contact me Candice Sullivan the admissions and Lottery coordinator at Sea Sullivan at chime charter.com

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