Mrs. María Valenzuela says that what she has liked the most about the Modern Academy is a sense of “a very family-oriented community”, as well as “seeing that my oldest son is very focused, knows how to relate very well and is a good student”.
Doña María knows a lot about the school because her eldest son, now 19, studied there, and her other two children are still at the Academy, one at the elementary level and the other at the intermediate level.
“I was born in Los Angeles, I studied in many schools, in the county we have many options, but the treatment that we all have at the school, the teachers with the parents, everyone, makes you feel like a family,” said the Mrs. Valenzuela.
“What I have found in the Modern Academy I did not find anywhere. Imagine that I meet the executive director of the academy (Xavier Reyes), and he remembers my son, he remembers his name, what classes he was good at in high school. He asks me if he continues studying, how is he doing, ”said the lady.
Her son is doing very well, and she thinks the young man is now centered and nurtured by the relationships with which the Modern Academy operates.
“We are like a family, like a community. I have never seen the mothers of students who have already left the school come back as volunteers because of the love they have for the academy”, she said proudly.
The Modern Academy has elementary, intermediate and high school classes, the study programs are oriented towards the highest level of classes, high school, which corresponds to an education system known worldwide as the International Baccalaureate.
The International Baccalaureate is recognized and revalidates classes anywhere in the world where there are schools with the same system.
In an interview with La Opinión, directors of Academia Moderna spoke, for example, of students who for various reasons had had to move between Los Angeles and Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica, and who, thanks to the International Baccalaureate system, were able to continue their classes as if They stayed in the same school, even though they moved.
But apart from the sense of belonging, community and relationships between managers, students, teachers and parents, the academic system of the Modern Academy is also based on relationships.
The coordinator of the intermediate education program of the Modern Academy, Vanessa García, explained that the school’s educational model encourages students to relate what they learn in class with the world, starting from their local community, a broader one, such as it can be if city or state, and even globally
The general program of the Modern Academy comprises three parts, the Primary Years program, which is for children from kindergarten to fifth grade; if they continue, they go to the Middle Years program, which is sixth and seventh grade, and if they continue, they go to the Diploma program, for children of years 11 and 12, of high school, explained the teacher.
“If the student child for some reason has to move to another place or to another country where they have the International Baccalaureate program, the children will know what they are doing, obviously with the help of the teacher,” said the Mrs. Garcia.
Worse relationships are also determining factors in students’ academic programs.
For example, Mrs. García explained, “since the academic program emphasizes the relationship with the community, it also promotes interdisciplinary understanding.”
“This is something very important that I always like to explain to parents. In any given subject, students see certain concepts that relate to other subjects in an interdisciplinary way,” she said.
For example, they see the concept of “form” in English as “form”, but they also see it in their math, science and history classes.
In each of these classes it is used in a specific way but the students learn to distinguish that the form is a concept of application in various areas.
“This is very important, because it helps the student to have a global and interdisciplinary understanding at the same time,” said Mrs. García.
What does Modern Academy offer?
Your International Baccalaureate curricula and academic curriculum from kindergarten through high school.
For more information visit the school page https://academiamoderna.org/ or call 323-923-0383.
The school is located at 2410 Broadway, Walnut Park, CA 90255.