Acton Academy Marietta

📢 ATTENTION: CALLING ALL YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS 📢

Prepare to kindle the fires of industry!🔥
This year's Marietta Children's Business Fair will take place on April 20th from 12 pm to 4 pm.

Applications open February 1st. For more information visit: www.childrensbusinessfair.org/marietta

Chess Champions!
Our Chess Quest was such a fun way to start the school year. And it wasn’t all just fun and games - it’s amazing how many skills can be developed and life lessons learned through chess play!
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Monsters!👹👺
We are all Heroes on a personal Hero’s Journey, battling monsters that attempt to thwart our growth and happiness.
Today our community joined together to share and learn about the monsters that we face as learners, guides, and parents. Swords were sharpened and we are ready to battle them!
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Sometimes you just gotta stop and watch the rain together 🌦️❤️

It’s WE DAY! 🎉
Once every month, WE get together as a campus for the day. WE do multi-age activities and games. WE celebrate the things WE have done as a community of learners at our Badge Ceremony. 🏅WE love seeing the leadership of our older learners, and the admiration and learning our younger ones on these special days. ✨❤️

Where are the teachers in these pictures? 🕵️‍♀️🔎
You’re looking at them!







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✨✨✨THIS!✨✨✨
Multi-age means older learners get to teach - the highest form of understanding - and serve as leaders.
Younger learners get the love and safety of peer support, and learn that they don’t need adults to do hard things!

One more sleep!1️⃣😴

“Signing Day” ✍️was so much fun! 🎉

Can’t wait to start a new year with a group of amazing Eagles and families! 🦅

Cozy cabin vibes for our team retreat! 🌄
Lots of good stuff in the works for Acton Marietta Eagles 🦅 and the 23-24 school year! 📆

Summertime is for COLLABORATION and CONNECTION!
Spent the day with rockstars from some of the Atlanta area Actons sharing ideas and testimony. Excited to put into action some of the ways we’ll connect our guides and learners! 🙌

Honored to have spent the weekend with these brilliant people who are revolutionizing learning for the next generation!

Acton travels! Fun to bump into these Acton founders at the airport! Heading to the Acton network Founders Conference. 👏✈️

22-23 School Year = In the books! 🗓️🎉
We had so much fun celebrating a very special group of Eagles 🦅 this week and CAN’T WAIT⏳to kick off a new year with them in August! ❤️

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Closing ceremonies sharing words of growth, final badges, and measurements of progress. Ending the year with meaning and celebration!

Calm 😌 and cool 😎 as they work to finish their session/year end goals. 🎯

Morning marvels - how many Harry Potter books can this card tower hold? ♦️♣️♥️♠️

Today’s loose parts play creation: a “Waterpark”, of course! 💧🎢

Hero Talks:
Everyday heroes come and share the ups and downs of their hero’s journeys. LOVED having this former AAM Eagle come and share about his life and passions! 🦅




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So inspired after a weekend of learning and sharing with hundreds of microschool and hybrid school leaders from across the country!

Acton Marietta’s heroes killed it at yesterday’s Children’s Business Fair! So proud of these young entrepreneurs for putting so much effort, thought, and time into their businesses!

Did you know…
If you learn something through game play you have a 90% better chance of retention?!
Plus…you have fun learning! 🎲
Fun time yesterday showing family members all that we learn through play!

Love these new editions to our Explorer studio heroes shelf / just in time for their Entertainment
Quest! 📺🎤

Our Session 4 Exhibition was such a treat to witness! Adventurers brought our main building to life with biome installations that incorporated the sights, sounds, tastes, feels, and biology of ecosystems like the Boreal Forest, Littoral Beach, and more!Navigators have been learning how to launch their own business - everything from branding to unit economics - and they showcased their products for feedback ahead of their launch this spring at the Marietta Children’s Business Fair! Let’s not forget the distribution of the Adventurers’ literary magazine - filled with stories, poems, art, jokes, puzzles, and fun facts. Way to rock Session 4, Eagles!🦅

Session Four Carousel of Learning is in the books! 🎠
This session, our youngest Eagles led families and guests through some of the literacy activities they do in their studio. This celebration gives the Eagles a chance to share their learning and builds confidence in developing speaking skills. 📝 🗣️

“Teaching is the highest form of understanding.” - Aristotle
Our Explorers taught their Grown Ups how to do their math activities during yesterday’s Carousel of Learning 🎠

Learning history can be FUN! 🎉🎲

It’s beginning to look a lot like… Exhibition Prep! 🎨
Countdown: 1 Day! 📆

Monday morning: complete with weekly towel rolling and football chatter! 🏈

Thoughts to close a week of many leaps that happened when the learners were ready ❤️