EdisonLearning, Inc (formally Edison School) is the nation’s leading public school partner which works closely with schools and districts to raise student achievement and, ultimately, to help every child reach his or her full potential. Edison does this by implementing a research-based school design, uniquely aligned assessment systems, indepth professional development, integrated use of technology, and other proven program features. Edison students are achieving annual academic gains well above national norms. Edison serves more than an estimated 285,000 public school students in 19 states, the District of Columbia, and the United Kingdom through our whole school management partnerships with districts and charter schools; summer, after-school, and SES programs; and achievement management solutions for school systems

San Jose-Edison Academy opened it's doors in the Fall of 1998 as a K-5 school, and have since expanded to include a Junior Academy, grades 6-8. We are the 142nd California public charter school. Originally located on Francisquito Avenue in central West Covina, we moved to our new school site, on Alwood Avenue, in 2004. We are a Charter school managed by EdisonLearning, Inc., while maintaining a partnership with the West Covina Unified School District. SJEA currently enrolls 1160 students in grades kindergarten through eight. As we begin our tenth year in providing a World Class Education, we continue to strive towards academic excellence for each of our students and are very proud of our on-going achievements. Highest performing school in the West Covina Unified School District California Distinguished School California Business for Education Excellence Star School Edison Double 4-Star School - Awarded three years in a row and only school in the Edison network to achieve this honor Title 1 Achieving School – only awarded to 108 schools in California Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction - 1 of 5 Edison schools to be honored with this award.

Enrollment at San Jose-Edison Academy is open to all students entering K-8. Students do not need to live within the West Covina Unified District boundary to attend our school. Enrollment Applications to be placed on our waiting list can be picked up at our main office, Monday through Friday, from 7:30a.m. to 4:00 p.m. All Kindergarten students seeking entry must apply and be selected through a public lottery. Applications may be attained in January of the same year students will commence school. Kindergarten lottery takes place in April of each year and parents are notified immediately of acceptance.

 

 

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SJEA provides students the foundation for building good character and ethics. The eight core values below are stressed throughout the school on a daily basis. Wisdom Justice Courage Compassion Hope Respect Responsibility and Integrity

SJEA is organized into academies. The Primary Academy includes kindergarten and grades 1 & 2. The Elementary Academy includes grades 3, 4, and 5. The Junior Academy includes grades 6, 7, and 8. In addition, students are further divided into Houses. Our primary houses are organized by grade level as follows: Redtail House - Kindergarten Zebra House - 1st Grade Mako House - 2nd Grade Crocodile House - 3rd Grade Whiptail House - 4th Grade Hammerhead House - 5th Grade Once a student enters into our Junior Academies they remain in the same house for all three years of their academy experience, with the same set of core teachers. Multi-age academies allow for individual differences in learning pace and style. Leopard House - 6th, 7th & 8th Grade Megamouth House - 6th, 7th & 8th Grade

 

1. Organized for every student's success Each Edison school consists of small, flexible, schools within schools called "academies." This organization ensures that students are better known and more closely attended to by adults. A K-5 school consists of a Primary Academy for students in grades K-2, and an Elementary Academy for grades 3-5. Higher grades are organized into a Junior Academy (grades 6-8), a Senior Academy (grades 9 and 10), and a Collegiate Academy (grades 11 and 12). Within academies students are organized into multi-grade houses of 100-180 students each. The students in each house are taught by a team of four to six teachers who stay with the same house of students for the duration of their academy experience. Classes are flexible in size and composition, depending on the instructional goals. Primary classes may be predominantly age-graded and fixed, but regrouping for reading/language arts exposes more students to more teachers even at this level. Edison does not track students by ability. Every student receives and masters the same ambitious curriculum. 2. A better use of time Our school day is one hour longer than in conventional schools. Our school year is 190 days long, compared to the national average of 180 days. Over the course of a school year, that amounts to 5 weeks more schooling. Over the course of a K-12 career that would amount to an additional four years of schooling. 3. A rich and challenging curriculum Edison has designed an absorbing curriculum that is built around five domains: mathematics and science, humanities and the arts, character and ethics, practical arts and skills, and physical fitness and health. We believe that schools need to emphasize the basics by also restore to a place of importance music, visual arts, drama, dance, and foreign language. Each field of Edison's curriculum is guided by student academic standards that specify what students must know and be able to do to satisfy the expectations of each academy. 4. Research-based and purposeful instruction Edison is committed to vital and diverse instructional strategies that encourage innovation and excitement in teaching and learning. Partnership schools are full of discussion, debate, discovery, and delight. Recognizing that students learn in different ways, Edison's instructional program is designed to address varied learning styles. And because research clearly favors some instructional methods over others, we have chosen those with documented effectiveness. 5. Assessment that provides accountability Edison designs custom performance assessments to measure student progress toward the more ambitious standards of the curriculum and trains teachers to use the curriculum to prepare students for standardized tests. Edison is strictly accountable for student academic performance. Our assessment system reinforces the kind of teaching and learning that is desired in the classroom while providing reliable measures of what students are achieving. 6. A professional environment for teachers Edison provides teachers the career development, resources, and opportunities that talented professionals deserve. Teachers and administrators receive four to six weeks of training before an Edison School first opens. Teachers have two periods open each day for their own professional development. Teachers also learn from one another through Edison's online professional development network, The Pedagogy Project. 7. Technology for an information age Partnership schools are technologically rich environments that prepare students for the workplaces of tomorrow. Edison believes that information technology can make students, teachers, and schools more effective - but only when used as a tool and not as a teaching machine. In Edison schools, technology is fully integrated with the education program and used to facilitate communication, research, writing, and analysis just as it is used in the real world. 8. A partnership with families A special narrative report card called the Student Learning Contract gives parents a more thorough understanding of their children's progress than they may be accustomed to receiving and brings parents into the school for regular conferences-all the way through high school. A Family and Student Support Team, designed by Johns Hopkins University, works with those families whose problems may be interfering with learning. Family members also have a role in shaping parts of the school's program and practices through participation in the school's Parent Advisory Council. Volunteerism is encouraged and desired at every level of school operations. Edison's vibrant fine arts program brings parents to school the old-fashioned way: to see and hear their children perform. 9. Schools tailored to the community Every great school functions as a community, a place with an ethos of shared purpose and responsibility, an atmosphere of security, caring and mutual respect. Great schools also fashion close and collaborative relationships with their students' families. They welcome family members as their partners. And they reach out to community agencies, groups, and institutions to reinforce and supplement their own best efforts. Edison schools organize a consortium of social services providers whose abilities and resources match each school's needs. 10. A national system of schools. When a school forms a partnership with Edison Schools, it joins a family of schools across the country and expands its resources, both human and material. Every school automatically becomes part of the national system of partnership schools, linked by a common purpose and plan and literally linked through The Common, Edison's electronic network.