Performance Character Pillar

The Performance Character pillar is the foundation of school culture at Athlos Academies. We integrate the development of Performance Character into every learning opportunity, allowing students to experience this connection firsthand. Traits like grit, curiosity, social intelligence, and integrity become a lens through which students view their learning as about more than grades, but as learning for life.

At Athlos, students view their learning as about more than grades, but as learning for life.

In the Classroom & On the Turf

By integrating Performance Character into our already engaging academic curriculum, students find greater meaning in their classroom instruction. Likewise, as students continue to experience trait growth, they are able to apply these skills to new academic challenges. On the turf, Performance Character attributes play an essential role. Coaches and teachers relate traits to student progress and goals. The results are an expectation of, and ability to, create high quality work.

Safe & Engaging Classrooms

Students begin each day with a chance to check in with each other, share important moments in their lives, and intentionally engage in Performance Character building activities. These morning huddles set the stage for a day of engaged learning allowing students to build knowledge and community simultaneously. These safe and engaging environments foster greater levels of student engagement and motivation.

Student Growth & Reflection

Students are well equipped to overcome obstacles, pursue success, and turn moments of failure into learning opportunities from which they grow. Along with an academic report card, students and families receive regular feedback on a student’s growth in each trait. This information serves as an opportunity to discuss a student’s successes and challenges, to hold each other accountable, and to build strong and positive relationships.

Performance Character in Our Building

The Performance Character pillar helps students feel more connected to their peers and teachers and to the school community. This leads to greater levels of engagement and motivation. Athlos Academy of Jefferson Parish students are well equipped to overcome obstacles in a relentless pursuit of success and turn moments of failure into learning opportunities from which they grow.

Our staff are equipped with:

Over 70 mini-lessons and 60 full length lessons designed to explicitly teach and develop Performance Character traits.
Dedicated time in the school day to teach and practice Performance Character.
100+ pages of resources and materials to involve the entire school community in the development of Performance Character.

Performance Character Assessment

In order to monitor growth and development. Our Athletic Performance Coaches conduct an extensive battery of assessments. Those assessments results are used to guide coaching, set goals, and celebrate Performance Character development.

What it looks like:

Unified performance character benchmarks for the entire school to track and monitor student progress.
Opportunities for teachers to assess students’ Performance Character 3-4 times per year.
Opportunities for students to self-assess Performance Character 3-4 times per year.

My favorite Performance Character trait is…

The Performance Character traits are some of our students’ favorite things about the Athlos model. Hear which traits resonate most and what they mean to them.