A Premier Phoenix Charter School: K - 8, Member National Junior Honor Society  

 
 
           Congratulations Dr. Bennett On Your PhD.     
 
   
 
 

Bright Future Begins With
Bennett Academy.

At Our Charter School Care Is A Given, Character Is Expanded, And Challenges Are Made And Met.

Bennett Academy serves K through 8th grade students from all over Phoenix and the Valley. As a member of the National Junior Honor Society we offer a challenging, coordinated, comprehensive educational experience with high expectations.

We opened in 1995, the first year that charter schools were approved in Arizona. There are now over 500 charter schools state wide. We take pride in being one of the first and most successful - and we measure success by our students.

We limit enrollment to 200 students. We know all our children by name and we love each of them. Much is expected from them and much is given to them. Your child's potential is discovered and nurtured by a caring and talented staff.

 
  Curiosity Comes In Many Forms.
Bennett Academy Provides A Respectful & Fun Environment That Encourages A Young Mind's Natural Inquisitiveness.

Award winning theatre productions; history, science and literature projects; sports programs; and rich and relevant seminar style studies mixed with traditional methods and multi-grade classes are some of the ways we provide a high standard of interesting, engaging, physically balanced, and intellectually stimulating prepatory education. Effective too. Our students find themselves prepared. Not just for the federal and state required standard tests, but for friendship, citizenship, service, advanced education, and, well, what we trust are and will continue to be lives well lived.

Bennett Theatre was the first school to receive the AriZonie Theatre award for Best Original Children’s show in 2002 for it’s production of “Testament.” This powerful and moving story of the Holocaust has been seen by over 2000 people and praised by Holocaust survivors as an accurate depiction of what they endured. A copy of it is currently in The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

Who can resist engaging the Gifted And Those Who Think They Are? Not us. Students and staff, Bennett Royals all, embrace and use the concept to tackle issues both current and historic, large and small. And it's no accident we end up involved with Science and History and Literature and Math and Language and all manner of subjects fit for interesting and challenging study.

It is easy to see why students get a great education at Bennett Academy!

Dr. Nancy Bennett's
Recommended Reading
How Not to Talk to Your Kids
The inverse power of praise.

By Po Bronson in the New York Magazine
©

Why do so many gifted students underestimate their abilities? A large percentage do and instead of their "smarts" making the world their oyster, it can limit their interest in many things.

>> Surf over to "How Not to Talk to Your Kids"
DON'T!
The secret of self control.

By Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker
©

Choosing to eat a marshmallow now or waiting for later to have several marshmallows may be a better predictor of success in later life than IQ.

"Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it." -Walter Mischel


>> Surf over to "DON'T"
  Review The Campuses of Bennett Academy and Venture Academy
Two campuses, one vision.
Link to video
>> Watch the Video (7.5 minutes)
 
  Safe Internet Social Networking
Pre-teen & teen socializing has never been so easy. Take some essential steps to ensure your child's online security.
>> Read This
 
 
Check Our Library:
The Kid's The Thing

A new manual for old-fashioned boyhood, The Dangerous Book for Boys has found a fond place in our library. Being a kid is an important job. Might as well do it right - kid style!
>> Visit The Dangerous Book for Boys web site
 
  Multi-grade classrooms support academic, social, and emotional development
Timing is everything and never more important than during formative years. Multi-grade groups create a confident inspiring environment because they let children develop according to their own pace and timing.
>> More
 
  Communiqué, August 2008 (MS Word: 264 kb)
Communiqué, March 2008
(MS Word: 312 kb)
Communiqué, December 2007 (MS Word: 444 kb)
Communiqué, June 2007 (MS Word: 672 kb)
Communiqué, November 2006 (MS Word: 780 kb) Communiqué, October 2006 (MS Word: 864 kb)
Communiqué, September 2006 (PDF: 120 kb)
Communiqué, August 15, 2006 (PDF: 144 kb)
Theatre Flier, August 21, 2006 (PDF: 392 kb)
Communiqué, May 2006 (PDF: 24 kb)
Graduate Report 2005 (MS PowerPoint: 132 kb)
Communiqué, May 2004 (PDF: 32 kb)

 
 
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