American Heritage Schools

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www.american-heritage.org
Educating Hearts and Minds for Latter-Day Families

Story

KNOWLEDGE IN THE LIGHT OF THE RESTORED GOSPEL
American Heritage School exists to provide a private education with a Christian foundation. Academic excellence, responsible citizenship, and character development have been highly stressed from the School's inception. We seek to assist parents to teach their children all knowledge in light of the restored gospel and follow the admonition of Brigham Young to Karl Maeser when he started Brigham Young Academy, “remember that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the Spirit of God.”

CHRIST AT THE FOUNDATION
All curriculum that we use seek to lay Christ and truths of the restored gospel at its foundation. We strive to strengthen faith by teaching students to look for God’s hand in all subjects- art, music, health, science. We teach English by reading sources that teach moral truths, and history as His Story (or Christ’s story) of preparing the earth for the restoration of the gospel and the Second Coming.

DISCERN BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR
Additionally, American Heritage uses curriculum that expects academic excellence and prepares our students for a successful college experience. We do this through use of methodology that teaches scholars not just to memorize and regurgitate information but to read and understand difficult literature, reason and discern between truth and error, apply truths learned to their own lives and write persuasively and coherently.

Finally, we use curriculum that teaches children to see God’s hand in the founding of America and the writing of our constitution. We want our students to understand that America is a chosen land, established and preserved by the hand of God.

HONOR CODE
Each student acknowledges and commits to maintaining the standards set forth in the American Heritage School Honor Code.

Mission

American Heritage School exists for the purpose of serving parents in assisting in developing the minds, the hearts, and the bodies of students in order that they may:

1. Be useful in the hands of the Lord in building the Kingdom of God on earth;

2. Increase faith in and knowledge of the Plan of Salvation;

3. Develop a love, understanding, and appreciation of America and the Founding Fathers;

4. Develop the basic academic knowledge and skills necessary to make self-education a life-long pursuit;

5. Learn to reason and discern between right and wrong, truth and error;

6. Develop character and self-discipline of mind and bod; AND

7. Conduct themselves in all aspects of lives as Christians.

All activities, teaching, governance, and administration are to be accomplished in light of the above objectives and insofar as possible in harmony with revealed principles of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and the laws of the land. All teachers, staff, administrators, and trustees shall strive to be living examples of the values, principles, and skills taught at the school.