Fulton Science Academy
ACCREDITED AND STEM CERTIFIED COLLEGE PREP GIFTED SCHOOL
ABOUT NEXT SCHOOL YEAR
Dear FSA Community,
I hope you are all doing well.
As we are very close to finishing this school year, I would like to thank each of you and congratulate you for successfully completing this school year through online learning.
As you all know, we are going through some unprecedented times. During this time, our goal was and continues to be, to offer the best education possible to our precious students so that they continue to excel without any learning gaps. It would be fair to say that we have done a great job together to achieve this, and we can only improve from here. In this email, I would like to explain our plans for the next school year.
First of all, I would like to share a personal event in my life. I am happy to inform our school community that after three years of hard work, I have successfully completed my doctorate in educational leadership at Johns Hopkins University this week. Thank you for all your support during this time. My dissertation was about “Fostering a Caring School Community through Social Emotional Learning to Reduce Middle School Classroom Misbehavior.” As part of this effort, we started daily social-emotional learning in pre-k through middle school this year. I am happy to report that the results of my study showed some positive outcomes for our students’ social skills, including interpersonal skills, self-management skills, self-confidence, relieving stress, social awareness, and friendship. As a community, we have always believed that being smart or academically successful is never enough. It is vital that together we create a caring and united school climate in fostering good human values with good character to contribute to our society as peacebuilders, innovators, pioneers, and overall successful professionals and leaders. I am happy to see that we are progressing in our efforts.
Second, I am pleased to inform you that during this time of Covid-19, our campus expansion project never stopped. Somehow, it actually got faster in recent months. We are hopeful that our campus expansion will be completed before next school year. The completion of our campus expansion will bring some additional advantages to us when we reopen our campus in this time of social distancing as our school continues to grow. Based on what we have seen during this time, it seems to us that our community recognizes this time of Covid-19 and related social and economic situations will not be permanent. We will continue to ensure that our students excel both academically and socially without learning gaps even during this time. Accordingly, we continue to see an increasing demand for our school each day, and we thank you for your support.
Third, we continuously look for ways to improve our practices. Before any of us forget our experiences about this school year, we would like all of our students, parents, and faculty members to take a few minutes and fill out THIS SURVEY about online learning. This will help us to continue to improve the quality of our online learning practices. Thank you for your time.
Finally, I would like to share our plans for next school year. At this time, we do not know for 100% when the school campuses will reopen for learning. However, we see that many countries around the world began reopening their school campuses such as Germany and Denmark, and we also understand that Governor Kemp is reopening businesses in Georgia in phases. Accordingly, it won’t be a surprise to see the schools in Georgia reopen their campuses in the near future as well. Until that happens, we will continue to offer online education and we will use our experiences, along with your feedback to improve our online learning experience for our FSA community. When the schools reopen their campuses, we will begin our operations on our campus with some new procedures under the guidelines of the CDC and local authorities, including but not limited to, frequent and detailed disinfection of school premises, possible use of masks by everyone, and some sort of social distancing in our practices. We will be able to provide you more details on our new operational guidelines as it gets closer to the reopening of our campus.
However, we also recognize that even when we reopen our campus, some of our students will prefer to continue with online learning for reasons including health conditions or not feeling comfortable to return to social life in the same physical environment during this time of Covid-19. Our plans include the accommodation of these students as well. In other words, when we reopen our campus, it will be a hybrid model to continue to offer quality education to both students who wish to come to school as well as those students who wish to continue their education at home through online learning. Currently, we are testing related technologies in our classes, and we will be happy to provide you more details as we finalize our preparations. For the time being, we would like to tell you that our hybrid model implementation includes interaction between students who choose online learning and the rest of the class and teachers in the physical classroom while still ensuring the privacy of students in the classroom. With this plan, we are confident that we will continue to offer the best education possible to all of our students until everything goes back to normal or to a new normal.
We will continue to keep you informed as we are able regarding details and final decisions when they have been made. At this time, we will continue to plan for multiple scenarios until we have a better understanding of how the 2020-2021 school year will begin. We thank you for your continued support.
Fulton Science Academy Private School
Serving Advanced and Gifted Students
Pre-K through High School
Email: ksener@fultonscienceacademy.org
Website: www.fultonscienceacademy.org
Location: 3035 Fanfare Way, GA, United States
Phone: (678) 366-2555
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FultonScienceAcademyPrivateSchool
Twitter: @fsaprivate