LISA Academy North High
Recognized for Top Growth in Arkansas
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Great news! LISA Academy North High Charter has been recognized by the
Office for Education Policy (OEP)
at the University of Arkansas as a school where students demonstrated high growth on the ACT Aspire! As you may know, the OEP creates an annual report entitled the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards, and this year we are recognizing schools with high student growth. We think growth is the best indicator of the positive impact that your school is having on students.
LISA Academy North High Charter received the following awards:
Statewide High Overall Growth: High School Level
Statewide High Math Growth: High School Level
Statewide High ELA Growth: High School Level
High Overall Growth: High School Level (Central Region)
High Math Growth: High School Level (Central Region)
High ELA Growth: High School Level (Central Region)
Awards are based on the 2018 content growth score calculated by the Arkansas Department of Education. These growth scores reflect how much students at the school improved from 2017 compared to how much they were expected to grow considering prior achievement.
We are very proud of the hard work that our students and staff at LISA North did to achieve this amazing award! Way to go, Jaguars!
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LISA Academy Awarded $74,331
for Outstanding Growth
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We are proud to share that LISA Academy Schools will be recognized with a monetary award by the Arkansas Department of Education for achievement in growth !
LISA Academy West High, Top 5% Growth $38,680.20
LISA Academy North High, Top 5% Growth $15,075.36
LISA Academy North Elementary, Top 6%-10% Growth, $20,575.70
Our total award for 2017-18 achievement in growth in ACT Aspire assessment results is $74,331.26. Congratulations to all the faculty, staff and students who worked so hard to achieve this!
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Apply Now for the 2019-20 School Year
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Our application for the 2019-20 school year is open, as of November 1. If you would like for your student to be considered for a spot at LISA Academy for the 2019-20 school year, you must submit an application on our new portal. You may find this link on our school’s websites, under “Apply Now”, or click
here.
Please check school websites for open house dates.
A random lottery will be held for available spots for next school year on February 21, 2019, at each campus. The public may view this process and details will be posted on our website prior to this event.
We appreciate you considering LISA Academy for your child’s education, and good luck in the lottery process.
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MATH KANGAROO CONTEST
COMING SOON TO CENTRAL ARKANSAS
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Do you want your child to be among nearly 30,000 Math Kangaroo 2019 participants in the USA and several million participants worldwide?
Click
HERE
to register now, there are limited spots available. Our deadline is December 15.
The 2019 Math Kangaroo Competition will be held at LISA Academy, 23 Corporate Hill Drive, Little Rock, AR on Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 5:00 pm. You may contact the organizer, Mr. Ahmet Bayram, at
abayram@lisaacademy.org
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Math Kangaroo 2019 – General Guidelines
The test has a multiple choice format with 24 questions for students in grades 1-4, and 30 questions for higher grades. For wrong answer or no answer there are 0 points awarded.
December 16 – December 31: Late registration with greater registration fee: $35 - subject to place availability.
The correct answers will be posted on our web page:
http://www.mathkangaroo.org
by April 20
th
. Information on the winners and the results will be announced in May.
We hope you will compete in this exciting math contest, good luck!
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Solar Car Team Continues Improving Jig-Jag,
Support for Project Requested
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The Solar Car Challenge is the top project-based STEM Initiative helping motivate students in Science, Engineering, and Alternative Energy. The SCC Education Program developed in 1993 as a high school extra-curricular program, and later evolved into the Solar Car Challenge Foundation. The Solar Car Challenge Education Program teaches high school students how to plan, design, engineer, build, and race roadworthy solar cars.
The high school students attending Lisa Academy North are currently constructing a solar car and will participate in the national competition in July of 2019. In fact, this is the only solar car in Arkansas that has qualified for the national competition in Dallas, Texas. Last year, our team burned their motor twice because of high temperature weather. They drove the car from Dallas to Arizona. The goal was to drive to California, but because of accident, they couldn't complete the race. This year, our new team members are designing the new solar car with upgrades. We have a total of nine team members, 4 girls and 5 boys. The team is getting support from Universities, experts and community members. The race event is a two week event, so our students need your help to raise money for their new solar car parts, tools, transportation and food. Please consider supporting our team. You can click this
LINK
to make a donation.
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LISA West Students Earn
All-State Distinction
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Congratulations to LISA Academy West High students Jordan Threet, Brianna Phillips and Barbara Phillips for earning All State awards in golf and tennis. Special thanks to Coach McGill and Coach Harris for their great coaching. Way to go, Jaguars!
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LISA Academy West Middle Teacher
Featured in Blog
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We are proud to share that recently, one of our own staff, Ms. Monica Simpson, a PE and Health teacher at LISA Academy West Middle School, was featured in an online blog article regarding first year teaching experiences.
Click
here
to read the article. Way to go, Ms. Simpson!
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Winter Break, Dec. 21-January 6
Language Festival, January 26
Application Deadline, February 17
Arkansas STEM Festival, March 8
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Please enjoy our promotional LISA Video!
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