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Elementary magnet schools that focus on the Arts provide students with opportunities to imagine, design, and innovate in creative environments. The arts themed magnet programs expose students to a variety of arts, culture, and more as they develop their interests and passions. Student use the arts to help create meaning and demonstrate understanding. Pinellas County offers the following arts-themed magnet elementary school programs:
Center for the Arts and International Studies
Center for Creative Arts, Health and Wellness
Center for Cultural Arts & Gifted Studies
The Dual Language program offers students the opportunity to learn all core academic content in both Spanish and English. Spanish Dual Language program is offered in grades KG-5. Students experience half the day taught in Spanish (Math and Science) and half the day in English (Language Arts and Reading).
Pinellas County’s Fundamental Programs offer students a family oriented, structured environment. Parent-teacher-student commitment to a quality education enables growth in the areas of responsibility and self- discipline. Among the school’s requirements are daily homework, dress code, and monthly parent meetings.
The Centers for Gifted Studies offer full-time gifted services to eligible students in grades 1-5. Advanced, integrated, accelerated gifted curriculum will be used daily with the Florida Gifted Frameworks as the foundation to provide gifted services. Special focus is placed on critical and creative thinking as well as social-emotional development.
Center for Cultural Arts & Gifted Studies
Lakewood Elementary Center for the Creative Arts, Health, and Wellness facilitates and accelerates learning through habits of the body, mind, and heart. Scholars learn to care for the body through fitness, nutrition, culinary arts, movement, dance, and theatre; the mind through rigorous academic tasks, self-regulation, and mindfulness; and the heart through development of healthy coping strategies, a sense of well-being, connectedness, and caring relationships. Community partnerships include St. Petersburg Ballet Conservatory and Morean Arts Center.
Center for the Creative Arts, Health and Wellness
IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) is a transdisciplinary approach focusing on stimulating curiosity and inquiry as students use a conceptual lens to build deeper understanding of real-world issues. The IB learner profile’s 10 attributes develop internationally minded citizens. Spanish, art, and PE further develop imagination, communication, creativity and original thinking as students become lifelong learners.
International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme
International Baccalaureate Primary Years Candidate School
The Journalism program equips students with valuable life skills that will serve them no matter what their future pursuits. Students become confident writers, trained photographers, effective communicators and informed, involved citizens as they explore all aspects of evolving media, including digital technology. Students develop confidence through print, podcasting and TV publication of their work.
Center for Journalism and Multimedia Studies
The Center for Literacy Innovation provides a structured and innovative approach to teaching reading and literacy where students feel empowered and challenged in their learning. Designed for students with dyslexia and/or characteristics of dyslexia, this program provides a systematic, multisensory, structured approach to literacy instruction with opportunities for reading, writing and math remediation and schoolwide enrichment.
Center for Literacy Innovation at Elisa Nelson
The Center for Literacy Innovation at Elisa Nelson Elementary School, provides a systematic, multisensory, structured approach to literacy instruction. Students will have opportunities for remediation in reading, writing and math.
Center for Literacy Innovation at Elisa Nelson
Center for Literacy Innovation at Midtown Academy
The Center for Literacy Innovation at Midtown Academy provides a systematic, multisensory, structured approach to literacy instruction. Students have opportunities for remediation in reading, writing and math. The program will serve students in grades 1-5 who have dyslexia and/or exhibit specific reading difficulties.
The Montessori Method cultivates the child’s natural desire to learn by incorporating uniquely-designed materials into the standards based curriculum using group lessons and work plans. The kindergarten child achieves a wholistic education through sensorial and practical life studies. Grace and Courtesy lessons teach responsibility, respect, and cooperative learning in all our classroom communities.
S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M. magnet programs allow students to ask questions, innovate, create, and develop their talents as they explore the world around them. S.T.E.M. and S.T.E.A.M. programs provide students a foundation that enhances critical thinking, creative, and problem solving skills while providing hands-on experients, project-based learning opportunities, and real-world connections.
Center for Advancement of the Sciences and Technology
Center for Innovations and Digital Learning
Center for Digital Learning and STEAM
