PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The world of media is changing on a daily basis. Today’s technology was unheard of even two or three years ago and is continually changing, impacting media and its effects on a global society. Understanding the steady demand for people who are skilled in using the vocabulary of words, images and sound and who understand the technologies this communication is based upon, the EMAC Academy will equip students with the necessary skills to be effective communicators.
With communication as a key principle necessary in life, the EMAC Academy provides students with skills and knowledge to become gainfully employed in all careers but will specifically prepare students interested in media industry careers. In high school, students will learn the art of self-discipline and teamwork while building self-confidence through the production of an authentic media product. As an academy, the focus will be on the academic preparation, emotional maturity, intellectual development, and social responsibility of our students.
By integrating the core curriculum with media and communications classes, students find relevance in coursework by exploring it through the lens of media while simultaneously examining their potential future career choices. Students will focus on and have relevant learning projects that allow them to make connections to the world around them as well as to their future careers, meanwhile building relationships within their Academy that are critical to a positive high school experience. Through the participation in a small learning community within the larger Coppell High School, students will benefit from this customized learning environment that leads them to college and career readiness.
Through this handbook, it is intended that teachers, students and parents will be able to draw confidently on a recognizable common educational framework, a consistent structure of aims and values and an overarching concept of how to develop the effective communications student. By focusing on the dynamic combination of knowledge, skills, independent critical and creative thought and international-mindedness, EMAC espouses the principle of educating the whole person for a life of active, responsible citizenship. The EMAC student is a lifelong learner.
With communication as a key principle necessary in life, the EMAC Academy provides students with skills and knowledge to become gainfully employed in all careers but will specifically prepare students interested in media industry careers. In high school, students will learn the art of self-discipline and teamwork while building self-confidence through the production of an authentic media product. As an academy, the focus will be on the academic preparation, emotional maturity, intellectual development, and social responsibility of our students.
By integrating the core curriculum with media and communications classes, students find relevance in coursework by exploring it through the lens of media while simultaneously examining their potential future career choices. Students will focus on and have relevant learning projects that allow them to make connections to the world around them as well as to their future careers, meanwhile building relationships within their Academy that are critical to a positive high school experience. Through the participation in a small learning community within the larger Coppell High School, students will benefit from this customized learning environment that leads them to college and career readiness.
Through this handbook, it is intended that teachers, students and parents will be able to draw confidently on a recognizable common educational framework, a consistent structure of aims and values and an overarching concept of how to develop the effective communications student. By focusing on the dynamic combination of knowledge, skills, independent critical and creative thought and international-mindedness, EMAC espouses the principle of educating the whole person for a life of active, responsible citizenship. The EMAC student is a lifelong learner.