Imagine Main Street Academy – A Charter School

We support public education!

We want to offer a choice of public schools to our children by
opening a charter school alongside the current
schools offered. Just as the University of Georgia,
Georgia State and Georgia Tech are all public
universities offering a choice as to what learning
emphasis fits best for individual Georgia students,
Imagine Main Street Academy is a charter school
that will offer a similar choice for elementary
students primarily in the College Park, East Point
and Hapeville areas.

• Imagine Main Street Academy: A Charter School

will be a small-to-medium-sized, community-based
charter school specifically formed to serve
our diverse and growing population. The school
would be kindergarten through fifth grade initially.
We have partnered with Imagine Schools
(www.imagineschools.com), a company that works
with communities to develop and manage charter
schools.
- The curriculum offered will be IBPYP, which is
unique for elementary students in South Fulton
County. The program has a dual language focus
of English and Spanish, better preparing our
students for today’s global economy.

• The International Baccalaureate Primary Years

Programme (IBPYP) is a transdisciplinary
programme of international education designed
to foster the development of the whole child, for
students up to age 12. It focuses on the total
growth of the developing child, touching hearts
as well as minds and encompassing social,
physical, emotional and cultural needs in addition
to academic development.
The PYP draws on research and best practice
from a range of national systems with a wealth
of knowledge and experience from international
schools to create a relevant, engaging, challenging
and significant educational framework for all
children.

• The curriculum framework consists of five

essential elements: concepts, knowledge, skills,
attitude, action. The knowledge component is
developed through inquiries into six
transdisciplinary themes of global significance,
supported and balanced by six subject areas.
Teachers assess students by selecting or designing
methods of assessment appropriate to the learning
outcomes they intend to capture. Teachers also
take into account the diverse, complicated and
sophisticated ways that individual students use
to develop and demonstrate their understanding.

• Charter schools are independent public schools

that are open to all students, regardless of income,
gender, race or religion. They exist under a charter
that holds them accountable for results. Charter
schools run independently of traditional school
districts, yet since they are public schools they
are funded by existing taxpayer money,
not tuition. Visit www.publiccharters.org for more
background on charter schools.

• The current plan is to have a charter school up

and running by Fall 2009, with Imagine Schools’
help. We need strong public support as we submit
our charter for approval in March 2008. We
invite you to write a letter of support, help spread
the word, join us for our next meeting and make
your voice heard as these plans move forward.
Even if you don’t have school-age children, please
get involved to better our community’s future.
We can’t do it without you!