Action Studio

Join us! Acton Children’s Business Fair

15+ Young Entrepreneurs Ages 6-14 Showcase Their Business Ventures

🗓️ This Sunday - May 21, 2023

⏰ 10 AM - 1 PM

🏠 114 Mimico Avenue, across John English

Rain or shine

See you there!

Acton Academy in the news!

Your child can be part of the global Acton Academy network. Acton Academy Toronto is still accepting applications for September. Scholarships are available to qualified applicants. Book an appointment today!

Acton Academy: Hero Launchpad Goes Global Now the flagship of a global school network, Acton Academy is the leading example of four important trends in learning.

Acton Academy Toronto is hiring! Do you want to change the world?
If your passion is to fuel the love of learning in others while advancing your own personal and professional growth, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor of one of the world’s most innovative schools.

This position is ideal for an independent learner who can work with little direct guidance; someone who is a warm-heated and tough-minded coach; someone who likes to collaborate, experiment, evaluate, and continually improve; someone who has a deep respect for all children, believing that each human has a genius within; and someone who is a flexible problem-solver. It is essential that this person can learn fast, passionate about work, and is an active reader and writer.

Job Description:
The elementary school guide will work in partnership with the team to:
· Affirm students, holding them accountable to their promises and to delivering “the best work they can do” as they discover and pursue a calling on a Hero’s journey.
· Create meaningful exhibitions, ceremonies and celebrations that reinforce the rules of engagement. And to uphold personal and group covenants to provide and strengthen a safe learning community.
· Act as a role model as an independent learner on a hero’s journey.
· Launch and lead Socratic discussions and guiding children using Socratic method.
· Co-create and launch quests (projects), including daily challenges and curating world-class examples.
· Supply a positive studio environment and set up the studio as an inspiration for learning.
· Encourage young heroes to track their progress and create portfolios to show parents, peers and apprenticeship employers what they can do.
· Uphold promises to students, parents and fellow guides made in relational covenants
· Pass along each of these responsibilities to students as quickly as possible, so as to allow students to lead themselves.


Qualifications:

· A deep curiosity about life and love of lifelong learning.

· Innovative with entrepreneurial spirit.

· Ability to build and maintain a strong culture of self-directed learning.

· Experience working on a team.

· Customer service and user-centered orientation with the ability to give and receive feedback, meet needs, and get a positive response.

· Proven excellence in written and oral communication skills

· Evident passion for being on a Hero’s Journey.

· Agile facilitating project-based, experiential, real-world learning.

· Proficient quantitative reasoning skills to look at learner growth data to inform next steps.

· Training in Montessori (Elementary-age) would be an asset but not required.

· Demonstrated successful experience building strong relationships with children ages 6-12.

· Proficient with use of computer applications and programs, technology savvy.

One of the things Former US President Obama mentioned in his last visit to Canada was about education and this is one of the reasons we are opening Acton Academy Toronto:

"Obama garnered applause when he said called for a rethink in how young people are educated, to teach them critical thinking, and “experiential learning.” An education system with a blackboard and boring teacher may have been good to teach kids to work in a factory or an office in the past but that is no longer adequate."

Former U.S. president Barack Obama gets rock-star welcome from Ottawa crowd | The Star The visit comes one day after U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence was in town on behalf of President Donald Trump, who is decidedly less popular in Canada than the 44th occupant of the Oval Office.

Our outdoor signs are here! Preparing for September launch! For more information, please visit actonacademytoronto.com