Project-based interdisciplinary instruction engage students with hands-on learning that is applicable to the real world.
About Utah International Charter school
Our Mission
Our mission is to give English learners full access to a rigorous secondary curriculum by providing content-based, sheltered English instruction in every class, and to empower refugees, immigrants and American-born students with collaboration skills, critical-thinking skills, and diverse global perspectives.
Our Values
Build Community
We create a safe, trusting and supportive environment where everyone belongs.
Think Individually, Learn Together
We become stronger through collaboration.
Celebrate Diversity
We respect, embrace, and enrich each other through all of our differences.
Foster Self-Reliance
We take personal responsibility for ourselves, our work, our community, and our future.
Our Vision
Our vision is to honor and celebrate each student’s culture and identity while empowering him or her with language, global literacy, collaboration, leadership, and critical thinking skills.
A vast amount of educational and cognitive research indicates that these four factors increase student learning and keep kids in school:
- A small school setting
- Meaningful relationships between teachers and students
- Mixed-ability grouping: No tracking
- Teachers who collaborate
Our Approach
Our mission is to give English learners full access to a rigorous secondary curriculum by providing content-based, sheltered English instruction in every class, and to empower refugees, immigrants and American-born students with collaboration skills, critical-thinking skills, and diverse global perspectives.
- Highly Qualified Teachers
- Instructional Cohorts
- Small Class Size
- Teachers As Mentors
- Increased Language Acquisition
- Increased Engagement and
Student Learning
Highly Qualified Teachers
Highly Qualified Teachers
Every math, science, social studies, and language arts teacher is highly qualified and trained in effective teaching methods pioneered by the Internationals Network for Public Schools.
Instructional Cohorts
Instructional Cohorts
Students study in untracked cohorts of about 90 students and five teachers (math, science, social studies, language arts, and electives (music, art, physical education).
Small Class Size
Small Class Sizes
Classes are limited to 25 students, with average class size about 20.
Teachers As Mentors
Teachers As Mentors
Teachers serve as mentors as well as instructional leaders. Advisory teachers coordinate with students, guardians, counselors, and administration to ensure student academic and social progress.
Increased Language Acquisitions
Increased Language Acquisitions
Teachers understand the process of acquiring academic language for both native and non-native speakers, and incorporate listening, speaking, reading, and writing along with content instruction every day.
Increased Engagement and Student Learning