Utah International Charter School

About

Utah International is a charter school located in South Salt Lake that provides rigorous college preparation and career preparation for a global economy. Utah International offers integrated project based learning in a multicultural setting.

Story

Our vision is to honor and celebrate each student’s culture and identity while empowering him or her with language, global literacy, collaboration, leadership, and critical thinking skills.

A vast amount of educational and cognitive research indicates that these four factors increase student learning and keep kids in school:

1. A small school setting.
-UICS will have fewer than 500 students.

2. Meaningful relationships with teachers and students.
-UICS students will study in cohorts of 80 students and stay with the same instructional team for two consecutive years.
-UICS students will be grouped heterogeneously (no tracking).

3. Integrated, project based curriculum with scaffolding for students who need it.
-UICS students will work on projects that integrate aspects of math, history, language arts, and science into each unit of study.
-UICS students will use learning scaffolds such as pictures, video, graphic organizers, manipulatives, vocabulary development, and opportunities to collaborate with their peers.

4. Teacher teams that collaborate.
-Instructional teams will include a math, science, language arts and social studies teacher.
-Teams will collaborate to create interdisciplinary projects, monitor student progress, communicate regularly with families, and conference with counselors, social worker, refugee liaison, and administration.
-Subject area teachers will create and administer common assessments and ensure vertical alignment in curriculum

Mission

Our mission is to provide a rigorous and relevant education for secondary students interested in global perspectives, including recently arrived immigrants, refugees, and native English speakers.