Fireweed Academy
School District: Kenai Peninsula Schools
Principal: Kiki Abrahamson
Phone: 235-9728
Website: www.edline.net/GroupHome.page
Students Enrolled: 72
Grade Levels: 3-6
Type: Theme Immersion
State Board of Education Approval: April 28, 1997
Date Charter Expires: July 1, 2012
Mission: To provide a compassionate learning environment that gives students, parents, teachers and community members opportunities to develop self-reliance, cooperation, creativity, reasoning ability, personal growth and academic achievement.
Purpose: The Fireweed Academy Charter School recognizes many different styles of learning. Many students do well in a traditional classroom, yet some students learn best when they have more choices and when lessons are individualized and tied to real-world applications. To accommodate such students, the Fireweed Academy Charter School implements the following teaching methods: Theme Immersion Studies, Socratic Practice, Experiential Learning, Project-based Curricula, and Interdisciplinary Education. The establishment of Fireweed Academy not only benefits individual students, but also provides the Homer area community with more options for tested activities, methods, and curricula.