Ventura Charter School Of Arts

read moreVentura Charter School also serves homeschool families with students in grades K-5. Our Homeschool Program is a natural extension of our child-centered philosophy, which recognizes parents as partners in the educational process. Families who choose to homeschool with Ventura Charter School have a unique opportunity to both learn at home and to be a part of a nurturing school community which offers group classes and field trips. Our Homeschool Program embraces the wide differences in student learning styles, abilities, and interests that are often difficult to accommodate in a traditional school setting.

read moreVentura Charter School of Arts and Global Education utilizes a progressive approach to education. Students are encouraged to think, question, challenge, take an active role in the search for meaning, and ownership of their learning. Traditional activities such as reading from textbooks, filling out worksheets, and memorizing facts are replaced with active collaborative inquiry, critical thinking, problem solving, intrinsic motivation, and authentic assessment. In our multi-age classrooms, we nourish curiosity, creativity, compassion, independence, and respect for diversity.

read moreAt Ventura Charter School, academic subjects are presented in an interdisciplinary manner to promote continuity and to allow students to see how ideas are connected. California State Standards are taught using a hands-on project approach which engages students in meaningful ways and provides a deeper understanding of the subjects they study. Project-Based learning provides opportunities for students to explore real-world issues and questions and to make decisions about how they will find answers and solve problems.

read moreGlobal Education at Ventura Charter School provides students with the knowledge, skills and awareness to think critically. We seek to transform our community's local and global consciousness by teaching cultural diversity, nonviolent communication, respect for the Earth and others, and social responsibility. This process involves making connections, raising awareness, building respect and providing opportunities for activism. It is our goal to prepare students to think, speak, and write about political, economic, environmental, social and cultural developments in the world with confidence and to value democratic rights and responsibilities, freedoms and obligations.