Survey: Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School
Please share your thoughts about Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School (KCA), a proposed public charter school for the Illinois Valley. KCA will be a free public school with a planned opening date in August 2023. The first year (2023-2024) will be open to students in grades 9, 10, and 11. All future years will be open to students in grades 9-12.

We will share survey results with Three Rivers School District as a demonstration of family and community support for KCA. Your responses will be reported anonymously.

This survey will take 2-4 minutes to complete.
If you answer the optional questions, this survey will take 5-8 minutes to complete.

Thanks!
Melissa DeNardo, Kimiko Maglio, Ryan Forsythe, and Kaci Elder

kcahs.org
facebook.com/KCAHighSchool/
kalmiopsiscommunityarts@gmail.com
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The following question asks whether you support KCA. If you need more details to make an informed decision, please visit our website or scroll down for our mission, vision, and four core values.
www.kcahs.org 
I believe the Illinois Valley would benefit from Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School *
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Do you have children? Please check all that apply. [The school board needs to know how many survey respondents have children who will be in high school over the next four years. We'd also like to know if parents of younger children may be interested in KCA in the future.] *
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The following questions, which are optional, will give us feedback about the school's proposed mission, vision, and four core values.
KCA's Mission: Where it's okay to be who you are while discovering your place in the world.
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KCA's Vision: Our school will be a place where you can come as you are and we’ll meet you there. We will help you embody your authentic teenage self through creative expression, wild nature, community collaborations, real-world youth leadership opportunities, and rigorous academics that will challenge any doubts that you are intelligent, capable, and creative. We want to help you step into the adult world with confidence, passion, and perspective. Our vision is to help you define your vision – who are you, what brings you joy, and where are you going from here?
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KCA Core Value #1: Youth Leadership Grows Genuine Confidence - On the threshold of adulthood, teenagers deserve real-world leadership and ‘adulting’ opportunities that let them test drive their grown-up selves. Youth voices matter and should have a seat at the table where decisions are being made, including the school boardroom, classroom, and within the larger community. Youth also have the right to make mistakes as they practice becoming leaders and adults, and we’ll be there with empathy, meaningful consequences, and tools for self-awareness and self-assessment.
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KCA Core Value #2: Creative Expression is a Human Right - Every human has the right to express themselves through song, dance, writing, performing, painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and other modes of creativity. We support both the creatives who choose artistic careers, competitions, and performances, as well as those who creatively express themselves for merriment, catharsis, or just because.
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KCA Core Value #3: Rural Communities Count - Be proud of the starry night skies, towering trees, quiet places, and rushing waters of our valley. Learning the cultural and natural history of our bioregion deepens our connection to place, especially when the knowledge is gained through botanical hiking, backpacking, monitoring our streams, counting migratory birds, learning the innovative ways our community has generated economic value in our rural region, interviewing community elders, acknowledging forgotten and suppressed histories, volunteering, and exploring other ways of being in community.
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KCA Core Value #4: Multiple Perspectives Build a Better World - A 21st-century education is civics-minded, culturally responsive, reflective, and seeks to understand the world from multiple points of view. Practice valuing the strength of differing opinions, especially those that differ from your own, as you improve your ability to debate, critically engage with the past, present, and future, and find common ground to build a stronger community.
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One final question:
The community will be our classroom at KCA. Sometimes we'll go into the community to hike, monitor water quality, paint murals, report news on the radio, etc. Other times the community will come to us (with local community members guiding students as they create sculptures, invent poetic forms, practice democratic forms of self-governance, etc.). ... What community connections would you like to see created at KCA? Think about local nonprofits, small businesses, artists, self-taught scientists, freethinkers, elders, and others who have something to share/teach/co-learn with high school students...
Thanks again! ~Melissa, Ryan, Kimiko, and Kaci
You can reach us at...

kalmiopsiscommunityarts@gmail.com
kcahs.org
facebook.com/KCAHighSchool/
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