Royal Live Oaks Academy of the Arts and Sciences

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MissionArgument

Every child should taste success! No kid deserves to neglect! RLOA provides an individualized, easily-on, engaged learning environment where every child can acquire the secrets to success for higher and careers.

Vision

Nosotros seek to create and sustain a cohesive community.

When my husband Les and I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about the documentary "Corridor of Shame," we bought the movie and were deeply moved past the plight of Lowcountry children. Nosotros had no thought of the historically poor conditions and low academic performance of the area. We were appalled that so many children were falling through the cracks and we wanted to practise something about it. Our backgrounds brought a unique perspective that nosotros thought could exist brought to acquit. Both of us grew upward in big families that had not much in the mode of finances merely had taught us the value of hard work, teaching, and helping those in need. From childhood, my dream was to go a teacher, so I pursued a career in education. Les started his commencement business while he was in school and went on to develop many successful businesses spanning a variety of industries over the years. I have an extensive groundwork in education and assistants. I hold a doctorate from New York University and have taught in middle and loftier school and at the college level. In addition, I served as a college ambassador and as the director for curriculum and instructional development at the College Board—the AP and SAT people, working with teachers around the country in developing more learner-centered curriculum. I left the College Lath to offset a supplemental education business, with Les'southward expert assistance. I worked with children and adults with disabilities and life challenges. Our business organisation was then successful that nosotros adult an didactics franchise.

The film "Corridor of Shame" turned our life upside down and headed us in a dissimilar path. In the latter office of our working career, we wanted to provide assistance to families who could not afford supplemental education or private school. So nosotros gear up out with the passion to help public school children of the Lowcountry discover the "secrets of learning" so that they could achieve academic and lifelong success.

For more than than a year, Les and I traveled back and along from New Jersey to the Lowcountry to run across with local school commune superintendents forth the I—95 corridor, the area described in the documentary. In the process, nosotros approached Jasper Canton School District Board with a proposal to assist the district in improving educational opportunities for Jasper County students. Nosotros fabricated presentations at several Board meetings and met with the Superintendent. Les met with numerous local concern people and we held meetings with parents and community leaders to share our passion for children'south didactics and our educational arroyo to help the local schoolhouse arrangement. The Lath rejected our offer of assist.

When a customs member asked if we had ever considered starting a charter schoolhouse, we decided to explore that option. Les met with the Managing director of the SC Public Lease Schoolhouse Brotherhood to understand the process and and so he and I established Majestic Live Oaks Academy of the Arts & Sciences, wrote the lease application with an educational plan focused on a learner-centered project-based-learning focus. We formed a Planning Committee, met all over Jasper County with parents in community centers, fast food restaurants, literally anywhere we were allowed to share our vision and mission. Nosotros knew from experience that every child could be successful if educators started with their strengths instead of their weaknesses and tailored didactics to the individual needs of students. We presented our charter application to the SC Section of Education and received blessing. We received our concluding approval in 2011, and used our own financial resources to plan and starting time-upwardly the school every bit land and federal funding was beingness adult.

Les and I approached Jasper County School District Board over again to seek a site to build the school. We negotiated for the abandoned Bees Creek Unproblematic Schoolhouse, but we were turned downwardly. A Board fellow member mentioned the abandoned simple school in Hardeeville, and we fabricated an offer that was finally accepted. In August 2012 RLOA opened its doors.

Founders:

Dr. Karen Wicks holds a Ph.D. from New York University, has taught in center school, high school, and college level. She was a higher ambassador at City Academy of New York and served as manager for curriculum and instructional development at the College Lath—the Saturday people, working with teachers throughout the country in developing and implementing more than learner-centered curriculum with a multidisciplinary focus. As a learning specialist and educator for more than than xl years, Dr. Wicks has specialized in educational disciplines across the curriculum and has been preparation learners at all ages for many years.

Imperial Live Oaks Academy of the Arts & Sciences Lease School:

The Majestic Live Oaks University of the Arts & Sciences Lease School (RLOA) opened its doors on August 20, 2012. The majority of its educatee population came from the Jasper County School District, with a modest number of students from Beaufort Canton and private schools. More ninety per centum of the educatee population qualifies for costless and/or reduced lunch. 1-third of the student population of 500 is Hispanic, one-third is African-American, and one-third is Caucasian. RLOA has demonstrated that students have made gains from their previous environments, even though our students still need consistent modifications and individualized didactics to make major gains.

In order to increase the successful participation of depression-income students and to build a higher-seeking culture, RLOA is providing an engaged learning environment that prepares students for the twenty-offset century global economy.

In accordance with the South Carolina Charter School Act of 2005, RLOA's focus is to improve student learning, increase opportunities for students, encourage the use of a diversity of productive teaching methods, plant new forms of accountability, create new professional opportunities for teachers, and lead South Carolina in reaching bookish excellence.

The educational program of RLOA is designed to address the private needs of every student and serve children's diverse learning styles within a small schoolhouse surround of shared cadre values. Our school culture fosters academic pride, positive peer support, and a sense of personal responsibility amidst students, parents, teachers, staff, and other community members. RLOA provides a positive learning environment in which children can abound to their full potential. The integration of the arts throughout a project-based curriculum provides students with natural avenues to utilize their strengths in the service of the areas in which they need to abound. We are currently serving Kindergarten through 9th grade, adding an additional grade level in each subsequent year. Our 9th class curriculum incorporates a STEM (science, technology, applied science, math) focus to provide our students with the training they need to function in the modern economy. Arts integration and project-based learning fit perfectly into this plan.

As of July 1, 2018, Royal Live Oaks Academy is authorized past the Lease Institute at Erskine.

RLOA is a tuition-free, public charter school, and enrollment is open to whatsoever child in South Carolina.

We hither at Royal Live Oaks sympathise that without the support of stakeholders in our surrounding areas, we would not be able to provide a quality education for our pupils. Listed below are a number of businesses, organizations and people that proceed to offer volunteer hours, grant funding, and fiscal or in-kind donations in back up of our educational program. We thank you, community partners, and we encourage others to advantage your commitment to teaching with their business organization and support.

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		Wanda and Robert Davis	St. Paul'due south and Tillman United Methodist Churches
Mr. Welles Murphey	Harold H. Wall, LLC	Paul and Linda Cascio	Ms. Gloria Taggart
Ms. Kathleen Wilson	JCB Construction Equipment	Steve and Joan Rountree	Robert and Jeannie Malphrus, Jr.
American Auto Care: Ridgeland, SC	Mr. Don Cotnoir	Mr. Greg and Dr. Debby Chambers	Ms. Danielle Hilton, Volunteer Drama Instructor