Learning at MACS

LEARNING AT MACS

Shaping Minds, Building Futures

Empowering scholars with the knowledge, confidence, and character to go the distance.

Our Philosophy

At Miles Ahead Charter School, we believe that every scholar deserves a learning experience that is rigorous, joyful, and rooted in purpose. Our academic program blends high expectations with deep support—because we know excellence is not an exception, but a habit built daily.

We don’t just prepare scholars to succeed—we prepare them to lead, create, and transform the world around them.

Driven by Growth

Whole-Child Development

Academic growth means nothing without emotional and social readiness. That’s why we embed social-emotional learning (SEL) into our daily routines through Morning Crew, restorative circles, leadership opportunities, and behavior coaching rooted in empathy and accountability.

“We don’t just teach content. We teach confidence, resilience, and heart.”

Power Hour: Personalized Learning in Action

MACS Power Hour is a dedicated block of time where every scholar receives targeted support or enrichment based on their unique learning needs. Whether it’s reading intervention, math acceleration, or project-based collaboration—Power Hour helps move every child forward, faster.

Match Curriculum

HMH into Math

Building problem solvers with confidence and clarity.

At MACS, we use HMH Into Math to guide scholars through a comprehensive and engaging journey in mathematics. This program focuses on conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and real-world application — helping every scholar become a confident, capable problem solver.

Key features include:

Lessons that build deep understanding over time
High-quality math discourse and collaboration
Regular checks for understanding and tailored supports
Real-life problem-solving and academic vocabulary focus

EL Education Language Arts

Empowering readers and writers to lead with purpose.

Our scholars engage in EL Education Language Arts, a powerful curriculum that merges rigorous content, diverse texts, and authentic literacy tasks. Through this approach, scholars grow as readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers — equipped to both understand the world and express themselves in it.

Program highlights:

Module Lessons grounded in real-world topics and texts
Skills Block focused on phonics and foundational reading skills
Emphasis on scholar voice, ownership, and collaborative learning
Writing across genres with clarity and evidence

Our 4 Tenets of Teaching and Learning

Our Educational Approach

Our Mission & Vision

Miles Ahead Charter (MACS) is a tuition-free, K-8 school with a mission to grow whole, healthy, happy people for the 21st century. MACS is focused on scholar growth and academic achievement through a whole child approach to education.

Our vision is to provide all scholars with the social and academic successes necessary to help them realize their potential for local impact and global change.

Driven to Excel

Elements of Scholar Success

When scholars have completed their academic career and entered adult life, they’ll be judged not by performance on basic skills tests – but rather, by the quality of their work and quality of their character. This premise serves as the foundation for Miles Ahead Charter School’s overarching vision of increasing scholar engagement and elevating scholar achievement.

To realize that vision, we focus on scholar excellence in three core areas:

Character & Culture

High Quality Work

Mastery of Knowledge & Skills

Future-Ready, Today

The MACS Scholars Experience

MACS is dedicated to meeting the needs of our digital natives. This means rethinking the current practices in education and offering a curriculum that speaks to the world our scholars were born into.

This includes offering coding as a language, social emotional, wellness and character education, real-world expeditions of learning, and other opportunities to synthesize and apply their learning.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE:

A COMMITTED CREW OF EDUCATORS

Data-Driven Excellence

Measuring Our Impact

For more details regarding Miles Ahead Charter School’s performance, please access our Report Card and CCRPI information:

Principles with Purpose

The 4 Principles of Teaching & Learning at MACS

Whole Child Approach

MACS believes that academic success is built on strong character qualities of respect, collaboration, perseverance, responsibility, and compassion. To lay the foundation for academic success, MACS will foster and celebrate scholars’ character development by building a culture in which scholars and staff work together to become effective learners and ethical people who contribute to a better world.

Scholar Growth and Achievement

At MACS, we quantify mastery as both standards-based proficiency and individual growth across disciplines over time. No two scholars start the school year in the same place; thus, MACS prioritizes the need to ensure scholars are receiving academic content that is equitable for their individual pathway and prepares them for success at each level of their education. Supporting the balance of growth and achievement across disciplines are the scholar-engaged assessment practices that position scholars to be leaders of their own learning.

A Purpose Driven Learning Environment

A quality education can change the course of a young child’s life. Knowing that, we take deliberate steps to ensure that the school, classroom and school climate promote both joy and rigor. The success of a school begins with the environment set within the walls of a classroom, hallways, common areas, and appearance of the entire facility and is manifested by the well-being of its community.

Community

Families and community members are key partners in the education of children. At MACS, staff members make families welcome, value their contributions and backgrounds, and engage them actively in the life of the school. Leaders and teachers explicitly recognize that families care about their children’s education, bring strengths, and add value to the community.

Our High 5 Habits

Driven by Growth

Our Journey

”We, the Miles Ahead Charter Crew, are dedicated to providing an education that allows scholars to reach their full potential, apply their education to improving their local and global communities, and prepare them to be miles ahead of what they ever thought possible. Together, we are the crew to #getschoolright!”

Kolt Bloxson Pitts, Founder of Miles Ahead Charter School

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