Our Mission

-To enhance and develop the community through after school programs, continuing education classes, and community service activities.
-To magnify the homeschooling experience through cooperative classes, activities, and material sharing

Our Goals

-Meet the spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs of the surrounding community
-Be a center for the homeschool community for the Blount Co/Marshall Co areas
-Be a template for other organizations

Principles and Values

-Our community is our family.
-We are responsible to our neighbors.
-Everyone has the right and the responsibility to educate their children.

 

Strategic Plan

Activities we intend to implement

  • Drama club – acting, writing, and directing short plays to present on site and to take to schools, libraries, and churches
  • Bible studies
    • currently supporting a weekly study for moms
    • would add study for children
    • would add weekend study and fellowship for families

Emotional needs we hope to meet

  • Spiritual – through bible studies, theological classes, and worship services
  • Educational – through arts classes, movement classes, and etiquette classes

Buildings we plan to move or build for spacing requirements:

New Arts Academy Building
  • work with Paul Black (architect from New York) to develop long range plans for the school
  • build initial space/auditorium and class rooms

People we are looking to attract, support, or service

  • Home school families
  • Big Spring community
  • Marshall and Blount counties
  • Public school children

Continuing Education we will offer to families, adults, after school, weekends, and vacations

  • Summer day camps
  • Ballroom dancing
  • Creative writing
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Speech