Phoenix K-8

Choose Your School and Choose Your Attitude!

What makes AmeriSchools staff and students world famous? The FISH! Philosophy emerged in 1998 and teaches some simple skills that help create a positive and energizing environment. What better place to learn? The staff at AmeriSchools follow these four simple practices:

• Be There
• Play
• Make Their Day
• Choose Your Attitude

Come In and Catch The Spirit!

A Purple Cow Aids Student Achievement

Students today use technology in ways we never imagined. Words like download, upload, burn, and text have new meaning. Students today have access to the world through hand held devices! So, why not bring that exciting technology into the classroom. That is what AmeriSchools Academy Camelback Campus did. This year you will see a Purple Cow in classrooms. The COW (curriculum on wheels) is a multi-media computerized supplemental curriculum that uses video, music, and an up-to-date digital format to capture a student's attention while presenting focused instructional lessons in math, science, and social studies. Teachers and students are also using SmartBoards. These are interactive white boards that allow for students and teachers to manipulate and interact with lessons. AmeriSchools is committed to integrating technology throughout the academic program to enrich student experiences. Kids love it and teachers report skills are improving.

With the Light Rail construction underway, there will be changes that will affect traffic around AmeriSchools.

Click here for links to information regarding the the Light Rail Construction.

Theater Helps Learning Come Alive

The Phoenix Theater has partnered with AmeriSchools for the past 5 years to bring Books Alive! to students at AmeriSchools. This unique literacy program provides a learning experience enriched with elements of theater including playwriting and acting, as well as set and costume design. The students work with a teaching artist (Lesley Tutnick-Machbitz) to take a book, write a script and then perform their original play.

"My own personal experience with the Books Alive! program at AmeriSchools has been very rewarding. It has been a successful team effort with a supportive staff and administration who believe that this program is an important component of the creative learning experience. As the Artist On Campus, I have seen personal and group growth in pride and confidence in my students as they write, create and express their own ideas. I have observed many positive changes in the way students work together, as well as in their personal presentation, motivation, speech, and carriage. The students exhibit pride and excitement in their product. It has been my privilege to see learning come alive."
- Lesley Tutnick-Machbitz