Vision: Engaging learners in the love of literacy, fine arts, sciences, and world cultures.

Mission: Providing a personalized K-5 learning community that respects all student learning styles and each student’s diverse capacity.

School Values: Listen, Respect, Try, Give

• Fine Arts = Art, Music, Drama, Writing, and Dance
  • K-5 choir, two bands, string ensemble, and orchestra along with grade level music classes
  • Grade level and personalized Art classes/workshops.
  • Fall Drama and Spring Musical along with Drama based Social Studies in all grades.
  • Writing workshops, author nights, poetry, and field journals.
  • Exploration in the world of Dance through workshops.
• Standards Based Teaching and Learning
  • AAK, a fine arts community elementary school, accomplishes its K-5 student achievement through the Colorado Standards Based Teaching/Learning Cycle.
• Foundations of Literacy
  • Literacy (Reading, Writing, & Communicating) Academic Learning Standards
    • Colorado Reading Standards
    • Guide to Standards
• Foundations of Math Development
  • Singapore Math Development
• Foundations of Handwriting
  • Handwriting without Tears
• Civilization Studies
  • Life and Physical Sciences, History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, and Community over time.
  • We build world history, culture, and civilization knowledge and understanding, through an interdisciplinary Social Studies and Science curriculum.
  • Science is aligned the Next Generation Science Standards.
• Interdisciplinary Content Connections
  • Collaboration across content disciplines through interdisciplinary teaming for life-long learning efficacy.