Category Archives: Educational

TigerCon Field Trip

What an inspirational, educational experience! Executive Director, Jen Nickerson, took a group of our middle-school students to the incredible TigerCon conference to hear from powerhouse business leaders like Tom Cummins, Emmett Osborn, Ben Nagengast, David Brier, Stu Sjouwerman & more! This conference covered branding, marketing, PR, sales, legal and growth strategies while speakers also shared personal stories […]

Palm & Thistle Highland Dancers

The Palm & Thistle Highland Dancers visited CLC Academy to teach our students the history of Highland Dancing & to perform to a few songs!   Palm & Thistle dancers have been bringing the joy of Highland Dancing to Clearwater since 2012. This form of dance originated in the Scottish Highlands as a competitive & […]

Pledge of Allegiance

In US schools, many students & teachers begin their day by standing up, facing the American flag & stating the Pledge of Allegiance. Our 1st – 8th graders began a social studies project using the incredible Pledge of Allegiance workbook. This workbook aims to clear the definitions of the words in the Pledge. It gives […]

Incredible Career Day Speaker!

Steve Cherubino, computer music teacher, lead singer & guitarist of the Area 52 Band & Founder of DAWJunkie, visited the 4th – 8th graders to share his belief that everyone has an artist inside of them. He showed the kids the basics of how to use technology in music composition & they loved it!    […]

Gardening in the backyard!

The garden beds were built and the kids planted seeds galore! To start the process, the vertical tower was used for the freshly-planted seeds so they can germinate without being uprooted by our adorable squirrels. After the plants sprout, the kids will move them over to the garden beds to continue to grow.    Here are […]

Fun with Science

Ms. Janine’s 2nd/3rd grade class enjoyed a science lesson on the solar system today where one of the students was the sun and his classmates were the planets that orbited around him.