Mission and Beliefs

The Hemispheres Academy vision is to use instructional strategies that deepen the knowledge and talents of a globally mobile community of learners to find academic success, personal fulfillment, and meaningful connection through an uninterrupted learning experience, empowering them to be global citizens so they can make positive contributions to their families, communities, and the world.

At Hemispheres Academy, our mission is to create a student-centered, technology-enabled learning environment in which our globally mobile students and families can engage in a standards-aligned, multidisciplinary, and community-focused learning experience. 

What are the core beliefs of our instructional strategies? We are:

Student-centered: A teacher-coach will be responsible for working alongside each student and family to create and manage a personalized learning plan, defining the evolving pathway for student mastery of the standards-aligned content. This personalized learning plan will give students ownership and flexibility over their modes and methods of learning and expression of knowledge.

Technology-enabled: By using technology to enhance communication and collaboration, students will engage in a mix of synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning experiences, within and across carefully curated digital learning resources and programs.

Standards-aligned: Through thoughtfully constructed, standards-aligned synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning experiences, students will have opportunities to discover, explore, research, communicate, produce, and apply their own knowledge.

Multidisciplinary: Through cross-curricular integration among the core content areas (language arts, math, social studies, science) and the special subjects (art, music, PE, SEL, world languages), we create opportunities for students to synthesize their learning and demonstrate their skills through comprehensive projects. 

Community-focused: Student learning and knowledge transfer will occur within the virtual community, but also beyond in real-life settings across the diverse geographical and cultural locales where students live.