CHIME Institute’s Schwarzenegger Community

Demographics

Percentage of students*

Why CHIME Institute’s Schwarzenegger Community was nominated

CHIME's academic model ensures all students are taught in a way that enhances their stregnths while also addressing their learning needs. Their approach to teaching is fully inclsuive, allowing both students with IEPs and without to learn side-by-side with the same high expectations.

Student experience design

CHIME Institute's Schwarzenegger Community School was launched in 2001 with the mission of creating an inclusive school that offered a high-quality education for all students. Today our nationally renown model has been praised by countless educators and families; CHIME was 2004 California Charter school of the Year and 2013 California Department of Education G.O.A.L award winner (Grazer Outstanding Achievement in Learning). Our K-8 school nestled in the west San Fernando Valley offers a dynamic, nurturing, and challenging education program for children ages 4-14. As an educational partner with Michael D. Eisner's College of Education at Cal State, Northridge, we pride ourselves in putting on display researched based educational approaches for the benefit of our 750+ students as well as for the dozens of student teachers, fieldwork students, and educators who visit our programs every year. Inclusive education at CHIME Institute means that children who reflect the demographics of the surrounding region—including children who develop typically, children with special needs and children who are gifted—learn side by side. CHIME’s model allows for the individual needs of each child to be addressed in a manner that enhances each child’s strengths while also addressing learning needs.

Core Practices

Core Practices	Length of Use
All Courses Designed For Inclusion	5+ years
Project-based Learning	5+ years
Restorative Practices	5+ years
SEL Curriculum	5+ years
Universal Design For Learning	5+ years

All Practices

Assessments For Social-emotional Skills

Interdisciplinary

Individual Learning Paths

Mental Health Services

Multi-tiered System Of Support (MTSS) In Academics

Multiple Opportunities To Demonstrate Mastery

Peer To Peer Support

SEL Integration School-wide

Student-led Conferences

Tutoring

key reasons for innovating

Artifacts

Evidence of Impact Resource 2024 - 1 Our students across demographic areas consistently outperform district and state averages on state standardized assessments. In addition our students gain the necessary skills, dispositions, and social-emotional well being to matriculate to as many as 18 different High Schools each year and experience great success in a wide variety of high school environments.