IMAGINE SCHOOL ON BROADWAY
Enrollment now 350
Imagine Schools announces it has enrolled over 400 students for the 2008-2009 school year at its Broadway campus, Imagine Schools on Broadway. Imagine Schools opened its first Fort Wayne school in 2007, Imagine MASTer Academy, which is located on Wells Street. Just one year later, it is opening a second school in Fort Wayne. Nationwide, there are 60 Imagine Schools, and is one of the largest networks of charter public schools in the nation.
Imagine Schools is passionate about making a difference in education by applying a unique organizational and operational structure guided by shared values of integrity, justice. This philosophy extends all the way to the playground with the implementation of an innovative playground program. Imagine Schools on Broadway will include traditional playground area as well as a “Peaceful Playground.”
At some playgrounds where the biggest and toughest children tend to dominate, the scene at Imagine Schools on Broadway will look different. It will be a recess where nobody cries, gets hurt or gets left out of a game.
Sound impossible, it’s not! With the implementation of the Peaceful Playgrounds Program such peace is no accident! The playground organization program is called Peaceful Playgrounds and its aim is to topple the centuries-old Darwinian pecking order of the schoolyard.
The concept, developed by longtime teacher and Principal Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, Los Angeles, California, is an affordable solution to playground woes. The program boasts increasing physical activity a much-needed intervention for the childhood obesity problem sweeping the nation.
To kids none of the above really matters. What they care about is best expressed by comments like, “It’s fun!” and “Now we have lots of choices of games to play.”
Through word-of-mouth among educators who’ve been exposed to Peaceful Playgrounds, the concept is sweeping the nation and can now be found in over 7000 schools across the country.
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