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An Innovative Museum Studies Program
To really understand your subject, try thinking like a curator. That’s the idea behind Ortega Elementary’s innovative Museum Studies program. This mindset provides a nontraditional but highly effective lens through which students can view, experience, and learn about the world around them. Ortega Elementary has developed close working relationships with several of the area’s most prominent museums. Through these and other collaborations, students learn how museums and galleries operate.
Our Museum Studies program is not intended to train future curators but serves as a framework for learning about the world. The learning process deepens, and students create grade-level exhibitions and performance pieces of their own. This framework applies to all traditional subjects and topics, such as reading, writing, social studies, science, technology, art, music, and media. As a result, students delve deep into units of study that correlate with existing state and county standards.
A Tight-Knit Community
Parents love our small, tight-knit community. Having only three teachers per grade level allows many faculty and staff members to know all of our students and family members quite well. We work together to ensure academic success. Families enjoy the many family/community engagement events, including Museum Exhibit Nights, B.E.S.T. Night, Pastries with Parents, Career Day, Turkey Trot, Literacy Week, Coffee Chats, Trunk or Treat, and our schoolwide family book club — One School, One Book.
A Variety of Enriching Activities
Students love our house system. Each student is placed into a house, and we hold monthly house meetings and celebrations. Students enjoy participating in various clubs, such as safety patrols, Teachers of Tomorrow, News Crew, garden club, student council, art club, chorus, LEGO Robotics Club, and more! Students enjoy spending lots of time outdoors on our beautiful campus, and they love working on their museum exhibits as they make learning come to life.
Programs
Museum Studies Magnet Program
Provides a non-traditional but highly effective lens through which students can view, experience, and learn about the world around them
