The Mission: TEACH Academy is dedicated to empowering future educators and nurturing creative minds.  This academy will seek to bridge the worlds of an arts integrated elementary school with an innovative approach to attracting pre-service teachers.  

The TEACH Academy is committed to: Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Creative Harmony. 

We envision a charter school committed to fostering an inclusive school community where elementary students benefit from knowledge-based, arts-integrated experience and pre-service teachers and high school students are inspired to join the profession. 

The TEACH Academy will engage elementary students in a high quality arts integrated learning experiences that ensure all students have access to:

• A high quality, knowledge building curriculum aligned to Montana Content Standards;

• Daily lessons that guarantee innovative and high impact teaching strategies that ensure engagement; 

• Increased opportunities to demonstrate student creativity and deepen learning through immersion in arts integrated learning experiences;

• Empowering opportunities for caregivers to participate in classroom and family engagement events that promote creativity;

• A community of discourse and discussion where students are empowered to self-assess, choose their learning evidence, and reach high levels of learning in a proficiency aligned model. 

The TEACH Academy will empower rising educators and pre-service teachers by partnering with our higher education partners to:

• Promote and create college pathways to encourage high school students explore the field of education;

• Create innovative solutions for paid internship opportunities, including paraprofessional and support staff roles for high school students and pre-service teachers seeking field experience hours;

• Connect aspiring educators to experts in the field of education to facilitate, supportive and encouraging relationships for new educators;

• Collaborate with our university partners to create new, innovative, and paid internship opportunities to encourage more students to choose teaching as a career; 

• Infuse arts integrated practices throughout the curriculum to ensure all learners, young and old, students feel free to grow their creativity.