May21817 LUX 2021 Private Education Awards Each teacher is certified in their subject Christ the Teacher area, working closely with colleagues to Academy ensure that students receive a thorough and comprehensive education. By collaborating Best for Elementary on behalf of students, it is possible for the school to grow more effectively and offer a STEM Education - better educational resource that ties subjects together. Everything is interconnected, and New Jersey taking the time to enhance these connections has proven a key part of the team’s successful teaching strategy. Part of the team’s recent success story has Schools have to adapt to teach been in the field of STEM, with the school embracing the value of robotics and ecology their students how to thrive in to the future of our planet. Students do not the world as it is, not only today, just understand the importance of these but long into the future. The subjects, but know that they will play an enormous role in their lives moving forward. embracing of new technologies While many educational institutes will offer and implementation of them these as optional extras to the curriculum, Christ the Teacher Academy has made it their into the curriculum is key. We business to ensure that their pupils are ready take a look at the incredible for what the future has to offer. Christ the Teacher Academy With such a comprehensive program on offer, following its success in the it’s little wonder that Fort Lee’s brightest and Private Education Awards to best come to attend this incredible school. The success of Christ the Teacher Academy see how its staff have been able has seen it named “The Best of the Fort Lee” to incorporate the latest and area in schools for the second year in a row, greatest developments of our as well as its success in the LUXlife Private Education Awards. The school is always time into their students’ lives. trying to find new ways to stretch its pupils, and this is best shown by the team’s great Gifted and Talented Program for students in At the heart of Christ the Teacher Academy, is grades 3-8. This school pushes them as far as the concept of Christ as the model teacher in they can go, in order to ensure they are living every respect. The entire school is built around up to their true potential. trying to replicate his way of living so that students may reach their full spiritual, intellectual, The triumph of Christ the Teacher Academy moral, physical and social potential. In this will be of no surprise to those who have heard way, through careful moral lessons and of it. The team’s commitment to its students modern teaching, they will help to create a is truly second-to-none. We celebrate their generation that will thrive for years to come. amazing success this year and look forward to whatever they achieve in the weeks and Since it first opened its doors, Christ the months to come. Teacher Academy has welcomed pupils of all backgrounds. Those who come to this Company: Christ the Teacher Academy incredible institution are encouraged to build Principal: Cynthia Schirm a solid foundation in academia, faith and Email: [email protected] citizenship. Each child is educated and guided Web: www.christtheteacherschool.org so that they may perform to their individual best, building up a strong sense of community that ensures that students can flourish throughout their academic careers. The success of this approach has led to many different accolades, and parents are delighted to know that their child is being sent to a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. The range of different skills being taught at the school embraces various academic subjects as well as STEM, art, music, physical education, library and computers. Having a broad education is vital to the growth of any young mind, and the team at Christ the Teacher take the time to ensure that their students have the access and opportunities to explore that they need. Page 22 www.lux-review.com.