1. Lakeside Academy
School of the Future
Rahmelle Buchanan
CEO and Founder

2. Outline
I. The School of the Future
I. Our Mission
II. Career Focused Academics
III. The Big Picture
II. Admissions and Academics
I. Admissions Policy
II. Technology enhanced learning
III. Funding and Partnering with Corporate and Educational Businesses
I. Funding
II. Research Opportunities and Sponsors
III. Summary and Finale

3. Our Mission
Lakeside Academy is a college preparatory sixth through eleventh grade school with a
mission to prepare our students to make positive impacts in our ever changing society.
We offer a demanding college preparatory program that is integrated with the Arts and
Sciences. Our students will participate in research labs at local universities, corporate
businesses, and medical offices that will enhance their skills for the careers of their
choice. –CREATE EXPLORE LEARN LEAD (CELL) Lakeside Academy Motto™

4. Career Focused Academics
MIDDLE SCHOOL: During their three years in middle school, students experience,
engage , and enjoy unparalleled physical, emotional, and intellectual growth. Students
learn to express themselves in new ways. They discover new ideas through literature,
experimentation, problem solving, and discussion. All the while, they enjoy the
increasingly important role of their friends and the learning community in general. These
are the years during which students crave success and acknowledgement for their
intellectual, athletic, artistic, dramatic and musical effort.
UPPER SCHOOL: From supportive relationships with their teachers to life-changing
opportunities to take risks and follow a passion, Lakeside offers its students the chance
to encounter new educational experiences that will serve their future plans, all the while
maintaining a balance between academic, creative, athletic, community, and social
endeavors. All students will fulfill their college preparatory requirements as well as their
chosen course of study. The majors are broken into four departments which include: The
visual/performing arts and Communications, Legal Studies and Business, and the Health
Sciences and Engineering.

5. Why should you choose a Career Pathway?
1. To create career awareness and encourage planning for post-secondary
education and opportunities
2. To provide knowledge that relates your high school education to the
world after graduation
3. To help focus on a career area that matches interests in high school
4.
To help set goals and discover classes necessary to achieve those goals In a
Career Pathway system, students choose a pathway that will prepare them
for employment in the cluster that best fits their interests and abilities. Each
career pathway represents a group of related occupations and industries
represented in today’s economy.

6. The Big Picture
Lakeside not only prepares your for college, it also prepares you for the careers and jobs
of Today. Students will have a higher chance of success based off the skills they obtained
throughout their years at Lakeside.

8. Admissions Policy
Since we are trying to be as "clean green" as possible, we only offer an online application
process. Applying online gives you the immediate option to initiate your application by
filling out and submitting the family information portion online. You can then print out the
forms that you will need for principal and other extracurricular evaluations.
As a prospective Lakeside student, we offer auditions for our Arts programs, and student
testing to see exactly where the student stands for their grade level. Lakeside does not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or national or
ethnic origin in the administration of its employment practices, educational policies,
admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school
administered programs.

9. Academics
Arts and Communications Designed to develop students’ awareness, interpretation,
application, and production of visual, verbal, and written work. Careers in this
pathway are linked to the humanities and include performing, visual, and literary
arts as well as the communication media. Some occupations include those in
creative writing, dance, editing, film, fine arts, graphic arts, journalism, modeling,
music, photography, radio, telecommunications, theatre, and translating.
Business Major is designed to prepare students for careers in the world of business,
finance, and information services. Careers in this pathway are in the fields of
business and marketing. Some occupations include those in accounting,
administrative support staff, advertising, computer science, distribution, finance,
insurance, international business, management, marketing research, merchandising,
personnel, purchasing, real estate, sales and tourism.

10. Academics Continued
Engineering/Industrial and Technological Sciences Designed to develop students’
interests, awareness, and application to areas related to technologies necessary for
design, development, installation, and maintenance of physical systems. Careers in this
pathway are related to engineering, science, technology, construction, manufacturing,
and transportation. Some occupations include airline pilots, archeologists, architects,
assemblers, carpenters, drafters, engineers of all types, machinists, mechanics, scientists,
tool and die makers, and truck drivers.
Health and Natural Resource Sciences Designed to develop students’ interests in the life,
physical and behavioral sciences. In addition, the planning, managing and providing of
therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health information and biochemistry research
development. Careers in this pathway are part of the health services field. They include
occupations in hospital services, medical technology, medicine, nursing, optometry,
pharmacy, psychiatry, psychology, therapy and others. Careers in this pathway are related
to the environment and natural resources and include occupations in agribusiness,
agriculture, animal science, veterinarian, forestry, horticulture, and wildlife management.

11. Technology Enhanced Learning
Since we are a “paperless” school, all students are required to purchase an Apple Laptop
from the school. Students will use their laptops in their classes everyday. We have
homework, tests, grades, important forms, student activity calendars, and more set up
on the students login website Edline. Students may submit their homework electronically
so that we will not use paper. In most classes, students do virtual labs online and create
podcasts of what they learned so that others can access them. Instead of writing a report
about suicide or drug use, teens create video public service announcements so that they
can help others who might be in bad situations.

12. Funding and Corporate Sponsors
Since we are a private school, we will have funds through tuition but in addition to
that, I hope that we can partner with many top Corporate businesses and Colleges and
Universities to help our students go beyond their own expectations and reach for
goals higher than they imagined. These are some of the businesses and organizations
we hope to have future relations with.
•Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
•Boeing
•Apple
•Google
•Habitat for Humanity
•Operation Smile
•American Psychological Association
•Coca Cola Foundation
•And many more……

13. Research Opportunities
Since our school has so many different Career Clusters, we hope that the students will
take full advantage of our programs. We also hope to send students for Summer
research opportunities to expand their knowledge in their selected fields. Summer
research opportunities will be advised with the students with their advisors. They will
attend these programs at colleges, businesses, and other places they wish to go. We
hope that our school can set the example for other institutions and show that our
students are ready for college.

14. Summary
To all our prospective students, parents, staff, and sponsors. Lakeside is not only a vision
for the future, it is a bright beacon of hope that hopes for its students to shine in many
ways as possible. As your CEO, I believe that life is not about finding yourself, it is about
creating yourself. I wish you the best and I hope you choose Lakeside.