About Us

Welcome to PRIDE Schools!

We are a free public charter school district in Spokane, WA, serving students in grades 6-12.

A core part of the PRIDE experience is allowing students to be confronted with real-world problems, hands-on learning, and performance assessments. Our projects offer many entry points for students with varying learning styles and interests, integrate several subjects together at once, are teacher designed, and provide students with an excellent chance to demonstrate critical thinking, artistry, and a deeper understanding of key concepts. Many projects result in a public presentation by the student(s)

Mission, Vision, Values…

The mission of PRIDE Schools is to honor the diversity and capacity of people through innovative education design. Our students are inspired to create, innovate, and challenge the status quo in a world that demands better designed systems, new solutions, and increased communication.

To accomplish this mission, we have designed our program for deeper learning, challenging students to develop and use their knowledge and skills in a way that prepares them for real life. In other words, we blend formal and informal learning together, engaging both the mind and the hand.

  • Culture

    At PRIDE, we honor the diversity of our staff and students. We know that no two people are exactly alike, and that we go through this life as unique individuals,

    So it is no surprise that the PRIDE community welcomes and respects -- indeed, celebrates the uniqueness of each. And we live that ethos every day.

    Students and adults alike model a supportive, collaborative, and respectful stance toward each other, as we all seek to unlock the passions, purpose, and potential of each individual.

    Because we all learn through trial and error, we are careful not to stigmatize mistakes, but push students to "fail forward" or rapidly learn from error and improve. We believe that students should be challenged to produce work that has lasting beauty, purpose, and value.

  • Our PRIDE Values

    We are a values based school. We believe that a strong school culture exists when we share a set of common values and are clear about what it looks like and sounds like to have such values. When we operate with a common set of values- we can become a community. These become the operating norms of the school and replace "rules" that often are common in our traditional school.

    We believe that all of us (students-staff-families) should strive to embody the IB Learner Profile Traits both inside and outside of school. This means we are all Inquirers and curious about our ever-changing environments, we strive to be Knowledgeable and creative Thinkers to help solve local/relevant issues, we are clear Communicators, Principled in our actions, Open-Minded about other cultures and perspectives, Caring and supportive towards each other, Risk-Takers willing to try new things independently and collaboratively, Balanced between academic and emotional development, and we are Reflective about the way our ideas and actions impact the world around us.

 

Challenge convention, do it fearlessly.

Our People

PRIDE Prep employs passionate, highly qualified educators who are themselves master learners.

Our staff care deeply about our students -- their growth, success, and well-being. Our teachers are designers of our students’ experience, and thrive in a highly collegial, collaborative environment.

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Our Approach

We are an IB World School. Our students engage in deeper learning in critically important ways: challenging and personalized curriculum guided by International Baccalaureate standards, hands-on projects with inquiry-based pedagogy, and college preparatory options.

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PRIDE Prep Middle School

Serving students in grades 6-8

Since August 2019, Pride Prep has been authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization to offer the Middle Years Programme for grades 6 through 8. We are an IB world school that is part of a global network of schools who are committed to providing a high-quality, challenging, international education—a commitment that Pride Schools believes is important for our students.

*”Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme, or the Career-related Programme (CP).  Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org. “ 

The MYP aims to develop active learners and internationally minded young people who can empathize with others and pursue lives of purpose and meaning. The programme empowers students to inquire into a wide range of issues and ideas of significance locally, nationally and globally. The result is young people who are creative, critical and reflective thinkers.

Students engage in deeper learning in three important ways: challenging and personalized, self-paced learning utilizing state-of-the-art online resources; hands-on project and problem-based pedagogy presented in "workshop" time; and exploration of dozens of skill areas in pursuit of finding personal passions and interests.

During mathematics time, students learn at their own pace using an online platform provided through a partnership with Summit Schools and curated by their Pride teacher. Students can learn at an accelerated pace, or slow down as needed, and gain mastery and skill as Pride staff provides just-in-time coaching alongside the student. Feedback is immediate and useful. Error is not stigmatized.

In the content areas of the humanities and science, students are confronted with real-world projects, hands-on learning, and performance assessment. The projects offer many entry points for students with varying learning styles and interests, integrate several subjects together at once, are teacher designed, and provide students with an excellent chance to demonstrate critical thinking, artistry, and a deeper understanding of core concepts. Many projects result in a public presentation by the student.

Innovation High School

Serving students in grades 9-12

Innovation High School is authorized for the Middle Years Programme (grades 9 & 10) and for the Diploma Programme (11 & 12). This school is authorized as IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Pride Schools believes is important for our students.

*”Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme, or the Career-related Programme (CP).  Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org. “ 

Innovation high school is an extension of Pride Prep Middle School. As college preparatory school, Innovation students are exposed to rigorous course content through motivating, authentic projects. The world is interconnected, three dimensional, and ever changing. At Innovation High School, we assert that the best way to learn about our world is to interact with it.

Our project-based courses ask students to get their feet wet, their hands dirty, and do something purposeful. Our focus on interdisciplinary instruction is crafted in the image of a world in which wide-ranging skills -- mathematics, writing, computer programming, and more -- are increasingly vital to individuals in society.

Starting with the class of 2022, the Diploma Programme gives high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to earn college credit through challenging and supportive high school classes. DP courses are all two years long, which lets students dig deep into topics and complete meaningful projects. This rigorous coursework prepares students to thrive in competitive 4-year universities, while teaching them how to learn while they practice collaboration, self-management, and reflection skills.

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