About Us:
The Clowvazar Academy is a K-12 private school, tutoring center. We also allow homeschool parents to take one or two courses on campus. Students earn credits for courses they take on campus . We mainly focuses on helping students with anxiety, Autism, ADD, ADHD and other learning struggles. We pride ourselves for being able to give our students access to one-on-one and small group tutors that are ready to help your struggling student. We aim to have the flexibility to meet the needs of our student quickly and in an individualized manner.
Philosophy: "I Like You":
When a student enrolls at our school, we make our primary focus to help that student find happiness. Education should largely be organized around reducing mental barriers to skill and knowledge acquisition. An unhappy student cannot learn and cannot be disciplined. To achieve these goals, we've created a program designed to reduce anxiety and increase awareness, participation and skill & knowledge acquisition.
We feel that students should be first and foremost in an environment that values them and is attentive to their needs. The environment is a large contributor to anxiety, and in turn a student’s anxiety is the largest barrier to education. Students need to be contributors to the social and scholastic environment of the school. Curriculum needs to match the diversity and adversity of our students.
Mission:
We aim to develop good world citizens. Emotional and social development is the foundation on which The Clowvazar Academy is built. Many of our students come to us with low self-esteem and few friends. Their desire to participate in life and school can often be low. Social and emotional skills are paramount to developing a student into their happy, helpful and creative selves.
Only when we have that foundation set, can we build our upper layers. By enriching their cultural understanding, we aim to increase our student's understanding of the world and its interconnectedness. Exposure to other cultures helps develop a sense of ethics by increasing empathy for others.
Through this process, we want our students to develop non-biased critical thinking skills.
All of these pieces come together to reach our final goals: employed, accepting, productive citizens of our planet that can contribute fearlessly. We must set our students up for their lives post-high school. This may include college, trade school, internships or direct-to-workforce life.
Beliefs and Faith:
The Clowvazar Academy is a secular school; however we welcome families of faith. We believe in creating a space where students can explore their beliefs while creating bridges between, and respect for, others. We teach tolerance of differences. We believe strongly that our programs should be a place without persecution of non-harmful differences. Our core faith is in truth, honesty and, above all, kindness to others.We believe in teaching critical-thinking skills which can strengthen and develop informed beliefs and conclusions about our world. Staff are instructed to act as mediators and not indoctrinators when possible. It is important, however, to note that we analyze truth through a scientific lens and will use the scientific method as our primary understanding of the universe which is reflected in our curriculum.
Testing: No Standardized Testing Required:
The Clowvazar Academy does not use of standardized tests as a way of measuring or comparing our students. We use portfolio assessments as a practical and more broad way of measuring our students; this approach uses 'multiple measures' such as tests, quizzes, homework, projects, et cetera to come to a comprehensive conclusion about a student's progress.
Year-Round Schedule:
As we are a year-round school, we have one week off about every three to four weeks (with some exceptions). Our schedule is designed to address the regression that students often face during long summer breaks as well as the anxiety that a student may have if they are in school weeks on end. A year-round schedule helps our students stay focused, manage their anxiety and also helps keep them moving forward in their academics.
Curriculum:
We pride ourselves in how we have rethought education especially in the domains of English and History. Here, we divide history into more specific units that help students understand countries around the world from their perspectives. To that end, we teach history through an anthropological perspective. History is divided into regions such as African History (history on the African continent), Asian History, and South American History (covering the diverse native tribes as well as colonization). We learn that cultures are valid, their experiences are interesting and worthy of being known. In the domain of English, we require each student to master various essay types that serve as benchmarks for graduation.
Day at Clowvazar:
The most basic plan at Clowvazar includes: Math, Science, Anthropology (History, Social Studies et cetera), and English (Reading and Writing) courses. Most classes are 45 minutes to 1 hour long.
07:30AM - Early Drop Off 1
08:00AM - Early Drop Off 2
09:00AM - Class 1
10:00AM - Class 2
11:00AM - 7-10 Minute Exercise
11:10AM - Lunch Starts
11:50AM - Cleanup / Cooldown
12:00PM - Class 3
01:00PM - Class 4
02:00PM - Regular Classes End (Most Students Go Home), Fine Arts Begins and Other Electives Begin
05:00PM - DOORS CLOSE
