#OurStoriesCRCSD - JSA
School Year 2018-19
Meet Gracie - 2nd Grader at Johnson STEAM Academy
During Discovery Day class, Gracie chose to be part of the Creating Comics. She learned the process of how people made comic books.
Her reflections from that day.
"It taught me about art because you have to be using coloring and coloring is art. There is a writer, a person that draws the pictures, and then one person that colors that pictures. We were learning that people makes books to teach us about engineering, art, and math.
Something that makes Johnson STEAM Academy unique is the free offers that they provide to students for before and after-school enrichment activities. All revolving around the offerings of STEAM. #OurStoriesCRCSD
Project Based Learning is alive and well at #OurStoriesCRCSD Johnson STEAM Academy. Recently, JSA students explored and learned about different habitats. Then they turned their classrooms into those different habitats to further their understanding.
School Year 2017-18
Hear from Candace Lynch, principal of Johnson STEAM Academy, about how becoming CRCSD's first magnet school has united the staff and focused the students.
A STEAM lab...wait, it's not what you think. It's not the end result when water boils. It's a place where students can take their ideas and using the design process see them come alive.
MEET JSA'S STAFF
Name -
Mark Taylor,
Engagement Specialist
Years at JSA?
7 years JSA / 11 with CRCSD
What he loves about JSA?
“I love my job! I like that I can be a role model. I love JSA because the kids are still young and you can still mold them. You can still get them to where they need to be in the future and they keep you young, I love that!“
Meet Charrisse Cox who has been teaching at CRCSD for 26 years, 25 of those at Johnson. See how she connects with students at the STEAM academy.
Hear from one JSA student about how the magnet tools at the school are creating future opportunities.
Meet fifth grade teacher Mr. Frette! He shares the transformation of students during their fifth grade year.