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06-02-2010, 02:09 PM
NBA legend David Robinson launching virtual academy (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2010/05/31/daily12.html)
by W. Scott Bailey
San Antonio Business Journal
Former San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson, founder of The Carver Academy, is expanding his East Side educational campus.
Robinson, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, has created the David Robinson Virtual Academy, which will serve students in grades K-12 from across the U.S. with fully accredited curriculum.
The David Robinson Virtual Academy will operate independently of The Carver Academy. But the two schools will work together, sharing staff, creating a joint library and co-hosting educational events.
“The David Robinson Virtual Academy allows us the opportunity to expand the reach of the Carver Academy and offer the curriculum that has been so successful here to students throughout the country,” Robinson explains.
“Virtual academies are on the cutting edge of the education system,” he adds. “We believe in the program that we have developed at The Carver Academy, with students performing in the top tenth percentile of standardized testing. The creation of The David Robinson Virtual Academy allows us to share that vision.”
The virtual academy will feature an expanded curriculum and an accessible private-school education stressing the five pillars utilized by The Carver Academy: Leadership, discipline, initiative, integrity and service.
Robinson says those students who are enrolled in the virtual academy will have the opportunity to chat with students in Japan and to participate in virtual book clubs, robotics labs and field trips.
Robinson spent his entire 14-year NBA career with the Spurs. He opened The Carver Academy in San Antonio in the fall of 2001.
Named in honor of George Washington Carver, the academy currently serves about 120 students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. More than 95 percent of the students enrolled at the academy are on full or partial scholarship.
Says Robinson about the new virtual academy: “We hope to empower, engage and challenge young minds from coast to coast.”
Registration for the new David Robinson Virtual Academy began June 2 for the 2010-2011 school year. For more information, visit thecarveracademy.org (http://www.thecarveracademy.org/).
by W. Scott Bailey
San Antonio Business Journal
Former San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson, founder of The Carver Academy, is expanding his East Side educational campus.
Robinson, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, has created the David Robinson Virtual Academy, which will serve students in grades K-12 from across the U.S. with fully accredited curriculum.
The David Robinson Virtual Academy will operate independently of The Carver Academy. But the two schools will work together, sharing staff, creating a joint library and co-hosting educational events.
“The David Robinson Virtual Academy allows us the opportunity to expand the reach of the Carver Academy and offer the curriculum that has been so successful here to students throughout the country,” Robinson explains.
“Virtual academies are on the cutting edge of the education system,” he adds. “We believe in the program that we have developed at The Carver Academy, with students performing in the top tenth percentile of standardized testing. The creation of The David Robinson Virtual Academy allows us to share that vision.”
The virtual academy will feature an expanded curriculum and an accessible private-school education stressing the five pillars utilized by The Carver Academy: Leadership, discipline, initiative, integrity and service.
Robinson says those students who are enrolled in the virtual academy will have the opportunity to chat with students in Japan and to participate in virtual book clubs, robotics labs and field trips.
Robinson spent his entire 14-year NBA career with the Spurs. He opened The Carver Academy in San Antonio in the fall of 2001.
Named in honor of George Washington Carver, the academy currently serves about 120 students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. More than 95 percent of the students enrolled at the academy are on full or partial scholarship.
Says Robinson about the new virtual academy: “We hope to empower, engage and challenge young minds from coast to coast.”
Registration for the new David Robinson Virtual Academy began June 2 for the 2010-2011 school year. For more information, visit thecarveracademy.org (http://www.thecarveracademy.org/).