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Trinity Episcopal School is a K-8 independent co-ed day school in Austin, Texas. The school was founded in 1999 in a rented blue house near the University of Texas campus. Since that inaugural year, the school has grown from 13 students to nearly 500, moved to a campus in West Lake Hills and built six buildings. Trinity Episcopal School is accredited by the Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools. Trinity's graduates attend some of the nation's public and independent high schools, including St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, The Hockaday School for Girls, Choate Rosemary Hall, Avon Old Farms School, and the Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) High School. == Academics == Trinity's Lower School uses a workshop approach for the teaching of reading and writing. Developed by Lucy Calkins of Columbia University, the workshop approach develops writers who have confidence in their own voices and fluency with a number of different formats and styles. Trinity's math program develops math fluency, treating the subject as a language to understand rather than a series of facts to memorize. The vertically integrated curriculum embeds basic algebraic and geometric concepts into the earliest math education and incorporates the workshop approach developed by Catherine Fosnot of the City College of New York. Students also take Think Tank, a program ordinarily offered in gifted & talented programs; Classroom of the Earth, a hands-on science program; music; art; Spanish; and physical education. Third and fourth grade students participate in Project Expert, a major research project that incorporates organization, writing, and presentation skills. In the Middle School, students have an opportunity to complete both Algebra 1 and Geometry by the end of their 8th grade year. Students can also earn high school credit for a number of other classes, including Latin, Speech, and Integrated Physics and Chemistry. Trinity's Head of School is Marie Kidd. Ms. Kidd is a distinguished independent school educator who began her teaching career in 1978 and who has extensive teaching and administrative experience in strong K-8 schools. She has taught all levels of elementary education and has served as a middle school head and assistant head before assuming her current leadership role in 2007. Marie holds a Master of Arts in Education from Occidental College and is currently completing requirements for a PhD in Education from the University of Southern California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trinity Episcopal School of Austin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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