Genesis Innovation Academy, a new state-approved public charter school, will hold information sessions for parents in March and April.
Genesis will open its doors in Fall 2017 for students entering from kindergarten to 6th grade.
It will accept boy and girls, but will offer single-gender classrooms.
“Boys are less engaged, suspended and expelled more, and have lower grades. For urban boys, this is a crisis,” said school founder Gavin Samms, a graduate of Harvard University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“Our girls are often discouraged from pursuing high paying, high-power fields that men dominate. We cannot continue to pretend our sons and daughters have the same needs. They do not.”
The school will offer a cross-disciplinary curriculum that integrates learning with practical applications. “We teach math. However, we connect math to economics, investing and finance,” Samms said, by way of example. The students will apply core subjects to the study of engineering , economics, entrepreneurship, ethics, and expression.
The information sessions will be Monday, March 27, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.; and Saturday, April 15, 10 a.m. - noon at the GUICE Center, 1485 Woodland Ave. SE, Atlanta.
Interested parents must RSVP to the information sessions at www.GenesisInnovationAcademy.org
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