Academy of Thought and Industry

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history,” - Carter G. Woodson.

Core Value: The Love of Work 🛠️

Purposeful work is central to a life well lived. In choosing our work, we direct our energies intentionally toward our goals, bring structure and focus to our lives, and reshape our worlds.

Through cultivating our capacity for work, as well as our appreciation of the rewards of work well done, we develop a character capable of genuine effort and great achievement. - ATI Core Value

The mission of ATI is to help our students reach their potential and live their fullest lives, empowering them through an education grounded in our core values. These values represent our vision for flourishing student development - what it means for an adolescent to reach their potential and live a full life.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under N**i persecution of many different groups and during more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest N**i death camp, in 1945.

"The violence of exclusion began with disinformation and hate speech that lent support to systemic injustice, discrimination, and marginalization and ended with genocidal killing. The theme reminds us of our responsibility to respond with humanity to the victims of atrocity crimes, to counter hate speech, antisemitism, Holocaust distortion and denial, and prejudice – to do all we can to prevent genocide." - the UN Holocaust Memorial Ceremony.

Pizza Pit Business Launch - Our first Pizza Friday was a success!

As part of their microeconomy project, ATI Chantilly has officially opened up their pizza delivery business -- The Pizza Pit -- to all their students on Fridays. Other than some initial start-up details, this business is entirely student-run. Students learn and practice business skills ... while having fun!

One of our core values at ATI is the love of work. Promoting a culture of work is what we strive to impart to our students. What helps foster a culture of work? Enticing workspaces that are clean and organized; Guides who model high standards; A curriculum that is challenging with real-world connections and that is delivered with clear expectations; and a community that shows its support with peer mentoring, attention to detail, and arriving on time and prepared - for school and all other activities.

This week in literature, ATI Chantilly students continued to read the novel Chains. Students looked at a historical event, “The Great Fire of 1776” and developed an understanding of the controversy of the American Revolution and Slavery and how that may have affected the main character, Isabel. Additionally, in History, students began to draft their summative history projects. Students are preparing a project of their choice to show what they have learned through this quarter.
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In Science, we developed a model to show how an object might be lifted, fall, or remain suspended in the air depending on the relative strength of two different forces acting on it – gravity and updraft. We built a homemade barometer to record next week's air pressure, cloud cover and precipitation outside.

We are excited to share that the Academy of Thought and Industry and Guidepost Montessori Hollywood Beach location is moving to a newly renovated space at 2216 Hollywood Blvd for the 23/24 school year! Hollywood Beach is one of the first Montessori schools in Florida to provide a complete Montessori learning program from 16 months to 18 years. Our new space allows us to double our capacity starting August 2023!

New features include:
🔬 A science lab
🏀 A basketball court and soccer field for outdoor play
⚛️ A new “maker space” with a 3D printer, electronics workshop, and CRICUT machine.
🎓 Open-plan and flexible classroom spaces

Please let us know if you are interested in touring our new space once it is open by completing this form: https://inbound.thoughtandindustry.com/hollywood-beach-info

ATI San Francisco high school student Jack gave the upper elementary students a music lesson. He taught them basic knowledge of the C major scale and its construction.

What happens in a typical week at the Academy of Thought and Industry? Here is a rundown of activities at ATI Chantilly’s Middle School:

📖 This week in Language, students continued to read the novel Chains. We learned about perspective and how there are many different perspectives that the story can take and discussed how Isabel’s perspective is different than the readers’ because we have more historical insight into what has happened in the past. Additionally, we worked on vocabulary terms to support our reading of the novel.

📜 This week in History, students wrapped up their mini-unit on the Constitution by analyzing the document's timeline and by drafting and creating their own personal Constitution. Parents can see these examples of student work in “Altitude,” our online workspace.

🌪️ We developed and used our “Gotta-Have-It” Checklist in Science to test and revise a thunderstorm simulation. We used these tools to consider how temperature, humidity, and other conditions produce larger and smaller storms. We also tried to lift or suspend different objects with air blown upward, and we recorded the weight of different objects and the amount of force registered when air is blown toward or away from a digital scale.

🧮 In math, some students have started working with decimal operations and reasoning about two different strategies for dividing fractions. Others have started comparing fractions, decimals, and percentages to solve equations.

ATI Virtual School High School students have been hard at work during Career Weeks, learning what it means to work as a play director, run a top restaurant in Chicago, teach online, use rendering software to design housing units and so much more! Here is a sneak peek from some of their experiences!

As we begin the new year at ATI, we challenge our student body to refine their thoughts, cultivate good habits, and enhance their personalities. Here are some great ideas from our Head of School at ATI Hollywood Beach:

Take time to improve yourself by improving your performance in both academics and personal goals.

Stop procrastinating. This is one of the most challenging habits to avoid. If we start completing all our tasks on time, we can improve everything we do!

Learn a new language. This year, learn a new language (and culture) and see your world open up.

Be kind to everyone: There is no better habit than loving others.

ATI Hollywood Beach students visited the Anne Kolbe Nature Center this past week. They had a wonderful time learning about manatees and many of our local Floridian flora and fauna.