Where friendship and academic excellence meet
Family Involvement


FIC Leaders -- Reminder about your new leaders for 2017-'18
-- President - Alisha Mitchell
-- Vice-President -- Laveka Belyeu
-- Secretary -- Javon Westberry 
Staff Highlight
Hi!!! I'm Ms. Jillian and I have had the pleasure of working here in the office at FAA since November of 2016. Friendship Academy of the Arts is filled with wonderful children, teachers, and staff which makes it a joy to come to work everyday. Not only do I enjoy working in the office I have the opportunity to grow closer with the scholars. One thing I love most about working at FAA is the culture. I love hearing the staff greet every scholar by name and with a warm hug. I am glad to be apart of the FAA family. 
-Ms. Jillian
 

My name is Akuorkor Ablorh. This is my first year at Friendship Academy of the Arts. I am joining the school as a special education teacher. I look forward to helping young scholars build their academic stamina as they explore their learning potential. I am excited to work in an energetic community that fosters critical thinking, independence, and everyone bringing their best. Training in varied educational disciplines has deepened my appreciation for the enrichment that life-long learning can nourish. Experiencing the intrinsic joy in learning is platform for future scholar success
-Ms. Ablorh
Open House
&
Orientation

Excitement fills the air with the anticipation of the new school year. Teachers, parents and scholars meet, greet and explore some of the many learning opportunities scheduled for scholars this year.
   Wow! Friendship Looks Great!

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FAA's scholar's will be very surprised to see all of the new changes. Some of the changes include new carpet, brightly painted classrooms and halls and hand blow dryers in the restrooms and much more. This is a wonderful welcome back to school this year.
A Warm Welcome to our 2017-'18 VISTA
We are excited to welcome our new AmeriCorps VISTA, Olivia Hanson. Olivia is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota Twin-Cities where she majored in Political Science. She is excited to have the opportunity to work to expand Friendships family and community engagement over the course of her year of service.
REAL TALK
WITH DR. CHARVEZ RUSSELL;
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Hello Friendship Academy Community,
 
I hope your summer has been great, wonderful, and fantastic! We have been busy preparing for another great year and we are excited about welcoming everyone back. This year our theme is, Leading Self To Lead Others , where our focus is creating leaders within our school and community academically, artistically, socially, and emotionally. We will accomplish this through the Friendship Way where our pillars are Academics, Leadership, Art Integration, Culture, and Family/Community Collaboration. Myself as well as the staff have been engaged in Leadership Development throughout the summer developing plans in each of these areas that will meet the needs of our scholars and families for this upcoming year and beyond.    
Through the generous support from the Minneapolis Foundation, RKMC Foundation, and a leader.org grant, we are excited to have the opportunity to implement “The Leader In Me.” This program is based on Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits to Highly Effective People” and will make a great impact on intentionally teaching the life skills needed to be successful. Our goal through the Friendship Way is to intentionally teach our scholars how to build and maintain positive relationships and this is just one of the initiatives that’s in place. There will be more to come as it is critical that our learning community collaborate to ensure the highest quality education for our children.   
We've also been focused on improving our facilities replacing carpet and painting to provide a fresh look and environment that maximizes learning and where our scholars and community will be proud. We invite you to come take a look during our open house on August 18th from 11am-5pm and August 24th from 5-7pm. This will also give you an opportunity to meet other parents, staff, and community of Friendship Academy of the Arts. We are thrilled that you have entrusted us to educate your scholar/scholars and will continue to strive to do better at serving their educational needs. We look forward to another great year and remember, “We are one Friendship Family!”
 
Dr. B. Charvez Russell
Executive Director

 
Friendship Academy of The Arts
2600 East 38th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406
P: 612-879-6703
F: 612-879-6707 
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