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.
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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
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