IEC will provide students in grades K-8 an academically rigorous mathematics, science and technology-intensive program in a safe and caring environment. |
IEC will integrate the Principles of Nguzo Saba (on which Kwanzaa is based), the Kemetic ethical system of MA'AT (which are truth, justice, order, balance, harmony, reciprocity, Sankofa (which means return to the source), and the study of science, math and technology. | |||
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From our Founder, Principal and CAO Dr. Francine Fulton We are excited and happy that you are spending the school year 2002/2003 with us here at Imani Education Circle. We had a very good year last year, and only anticipate things getting better. The faculty and staff welcome you and are prepared to work together to help all students become the best that they can be. We are an African-Centered elementary middle school that focuses on the strengths of our children to help them to achieve designated goals. Our mission is to provide an educational program that is based on the principles of Khepera which means to always strive for excellence. At Imani we practice and promote the principals of Ma'at which are truth, justice, order, balance, harmony, reciprocity, Sankofa (which means return to the source) and Nguzo Saba are: Umoja (Unity), Kujichaguilia (Self-determination), Ujimaa (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), and Imani (Faith). Go back in our culture and history and get the best our ancestors had to offer us and go forward. These principles guide the way to reach out and build a new world. Hotep!! (Peace) |
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From our Human Services Coordinator Terry Morange-Macon, M.S.W. Mary McLeod Bethune Welcome to Imani Education Circle Charter School's fourth year. As you are well aware we are an African Centered Charter School. There are many challenges in operating a cutting edge Afrocentric educational setting. This is, of course territory familiar to Imani Education Circle Charter School, by virtue of our strategic role in providing an atmosphere of authentic learning activities based on the student's life experiences. We first saw the need of our children, and the future potential that this educational delivery system will accomplish. We are in the process of reforming or redesigning our curriculum to impact on student achievement, whether through instruction of special needs students directly, through training of school staff to improve their skills or by assisting in improving administrative services more cost effectively and thereby making more dollars available to raise classroom achievement. |
It is very important that parents understand the importance of an African Centered Education. It has value, importance and necessity in the development of Black children. We don't want our children just to come to school we want them to be educated while at school. Your part in this process is extremely important. We want education to be fun, however it is often hard and boring work, and requiring commitment on the part of the student and the parent.
Homework is one of the most powerful tools that can be used to ensure your child's success in school. As you know the purpose of homework is to reinforce and extend what teachers have taught in the classroom. Another important aspect of the students schooling is attendance. It is important for parents to make certain that their children attend school on a daily bases in order for them to receive the maximum benefits of instruction. This is going to be an exciting year and we wish you and your family the best, and may peace always be with you. (From My People by Langston Hughes) Hotep | |||
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Unity I dreamed I stood in a studio And watched two sculptors there The clay they used was a young child's mind And they fashioned it with care. One was a teacher-the tools he used Were books, music, and art. The other, a parent, worked with a guiding hand, And a gentle, loving heart. Day after day, the teacher toiled with touch That was deft and sure. While the parent labored by his side, And polished and smoothed it o'er. And when at last there tasks was done, They were proud of what they had wrought. For the things they had molded into the child Could neither be sold or bought. And each agreed they would have failed If each had worked alone. For behind the teacher stood the school And behind the parent at the home. | ||||
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CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE If A Child Lives With Criticism, He Learns To Condemn. If A Child Lives With Hostility, He Learns To Fight. If A Child Lives With Ridicule, He Learns To Be Shy. If A Child Lives With Shame, He Learns To Feel Guilty. If A Child Lives With Tolerance, He Learns To Be Patient. If A Child Lives With Encouragement, He Learns Confidence. If A Child Lives With Praise, He Learns To Appreciate. If A Child Lives With Fairness, He Learns Justice. If A Child Lives With Security, He Learns To Have Faith. If A Child Lives With Approval, He Learns To Like Himself. If A Child Lives With Acceptance And Friendship, He Learns To Find Love In The World. | ||||
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LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING "The Black National Anthem" By James Weldon Johnson Lift every voice and sign, Till earth and heaven ring. Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. Stoney the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet, Come to the place for which our fathers signed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might. Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee, Shadowed beneath thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land. | ||||
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BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE Because we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor. Because we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way. Because we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray. Because the old walls of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing our children cannot hear us crying. Because we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to the children they Neither want nor understand. Because we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, and holds us up to the mirror of the world, shouting "Regard the loveless." Therefore, we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, To embrace our lowliest, To keep company with our loneliest, To educate our illiterate, To feed our starving, To clothe our ragged. To all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters. In honor of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation. We make this pledge. | ||||
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IMANI AFFIRMATION PLEDGE
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