What is the Institutional Renaissance Academic System?
Simply, complete orbital learning with the senses as a nucleus.
Ring around the roses, pocket full of poses, ashes ashes we all fall down.
Fishes in dee water, fishes in dee sea, we all jump up with a one, two three.
The Istitutional Renaissance Academic System aims to provide intellectually, spiritually and socially stimulating courses that engender a culture of civic engagement and empowerment. By marrying a classical understanding of education with modern scholarship, the academy takes students from the foundational level of knowledge in Primary School and raises them to the level of eminent intellectuals with a mindset towards preferred vocation. Students will embrace the arts seeking to nurture spiritually maturity and talent within. While offering a full curriculum that is both broad and profound, the academy will accommodate the diversity of it’s students academic experiences. As a socially conscious institution, we aim to form lasting relationships with fellow academic, religious and charitable organizations. In this vein, students will engage in intellectual discourse around pressing contemporary issues including religion and politics and complete half a year of service.
What are the main values promoted by the schools?
Learning: find means and ways to engage the internal, external, lateral, up and down, circling, propulsion, trajectory, instruction of the mind through the senses and the existial
Tihngen: disciplined command of specific existial tones striving to do and be an amazing knowing scholar with ownest.
Each student in a Renaissance Academic School learns to conduct themselves in a pleasant manner, every task completed “tihng,”a certain way:
Existality: being, thinking and feeling genuinely, authentically, materially and psychologically oneself responsibly, reliably and confidently
Passage: journey vast to mold oneself by reflection moving
Sublimity: achieve balance through upholding responsibilities to everyone in society
Inquiry: question the world and the environment in a way that is meaningful
Perspective: improve your personal and communal condition through striving for broad and deep understanding
Goodness: attain goodness and virtue through engagement in the various activities of life, even the mundane
Disectivity: grow positioning oneself in necessary and unnecessary areas
Ownest: know responsibility understand feeling it necessary to maturity as a functional citizen enrolled in life
Responsibility: make good choices using knowledge and understanding of good manners and maintain accountability
Scholarship: respect and love your mentors, and question your teachers about their teaching and learning
Aesthetics: pattern oneself making actions and surroundings beautiful knowing that all love beauty
Cullinary: savor playful ebb and flow of ideas communicator being athlete too
Inessence: time consistent attending and applying oneself to school work to maintain interest
Creativity: use personal perception to produce works that show scholarly understanding
Renaissance Academic School System propels students intellectually engaging eight main areas through The Stardust Method:
Sense: valid assured connections between faculties due to mundane prompts, satience, for a distinct reaction, sentience; perception
Sensory: acknowledging necessary radical apparency of fundamental senses, sight, taste, touch, smell, and meaning sensory metaphor, simile in synecdoche, literary terms
Silence– stand in the sill towards leaping, skipping, hopping, scotching towards
Nuance: differentiate particular feelings in composition precise fine points in specific matters, touching experiences, through encounters, tiding thoughts, grammar
Circumstance: discriminate markedly appropriately properly in state of mind understanding the opposite other self
Compartmentalize: touching connections between all topics through across sometimes into intellectual spaces
Satience: arousal and satisfaction of intellectual and sensual appetites or desires, curiosities, inquiries, and hypotheses
Sentience: feeling, perceiving or experiencing inquiries subjectively authentically; exploration of sentiment to realize concepts vividly
Sapience: sound judgement and understanding utilizing the senses; considering the actual sensed state or condition
Reverence: developing strong command of knowledge gathered, control and confidence in knowing through senses and sapience
Science: application of observable facts modified for varying situations, and truths in the physical and material world
Studiance: reviewing, copying, correcting placing course work and it’s elements using sentience through dalliance to develop sapience
Dalliance: exploring changing out-looks seeing distinct types of gathered knowledge as pawns transitionary from class to class through salience and dedicance into perpetuity
Salience: striving towards a brilliant presentation within a classroom and social context expressing reverence, sentience, dalliance, sapience, satience and science every sense
Dedicance: committment and determination in application to learning in all senses throughout education and usage to develop further reverence, sentience, saliance, sapience, satience and science for posterity
What are the IRAS assessment objectives?
In IRAS schools all students are expected to sit the:
CXC Common Entrance Exam
ACT Math
ACT Science
ACT English
ACT Writing
Pass with a 4+ on:
AP Environmental Science
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Physics
AP Human Geography
AP World History
AP European History
AP US History
AP Art History
AP Spanish Language and Composition
AP Spanish Literature and Comprehension
Standardized Test for Arabic Proficiency
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