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Life After Imagine Mableton
Imagine Mableton students are able to continue learning together at a summer enrichment camp led by former teachers of the charter school.
As June 1 approached, the teachers, students and support staff
The doors of Imagine International Academy of Mableton had closed for good after the Cobb Board of Education voted 5-2 to reject the school's charter petition renewal. After a year of fighting for the school, on the last day of school, students, teachers and parents gave their Mableton charter school a teary goodbye.
However, their time with each other was not yet over.
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Former Imagine Mableton teachers Toni Lewis and Lakeisha Tate coordinated the summer camp at Trinity United Methodist Church. This camp was formerly at Imagine .
The parents from years past wanted to stay with the program with about 85 percent of the students coming back or coming from Imagine Mableton.
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This year's theme is "SET"–science, entertainment and technology.
Lewis is a stickler on academics. Therefore, 60 percent of the day is spent on academics and 40 percent of the day is dedicated to enrichment activities.
If anyone would like to see the program, go to their website at www.6040set.info. The program has four certified teachers, former Imagine teachers and Pebblebrook High teachers, working with academics.
Some of the enrichment comes from coaches, students in the performing arts at Pebblebrook, students teaching tennis. One recent enrichment activity, an engineering event, called for the building of mousetrap cars as was demonstrated by members of the nonprofit organization Project Syncere. Former Imagine teacher Deance Boseman helped lead the demonstration.
Project Syncere utilizes a project-based learning curriculum to teach students how to solve real-world problems. Their customized approach teaches students lifelong professional and academic skills and more importantly helps students make a connection between the classroom and the real world. To find out more about them, their website is www.projectsyncere.org.
-Former Imagine Mableton teacher Marilyn Newsome wrote this piece.
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