Academic Excellence Through Arts Integration
Dream Academy provides a comprehensive PreK-8 education where rigorous, standards-aligned academics meet transformative arts integration. Our model ensures every student receives personalized, innovative instruction designed to build critical thinking, creativity, and confidence from early childhood through middle school.
ARTS-INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
Our Approach:
Arts integration is not an add-on: it’s the foundation of how we teach and learn. Our six full-time teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers to co-plan, co-teach, and co-assess units that deepen understanding through creative expression.
What Arts Integration Looks Like:
• In Math: Students create geometric sculptures while learning about angles, symmetry, and spatial reasoning
• In Science: Students compose soundscapes to represent ecosystems or perform movement pieces to demonstrate understanding of systems and cycles
• In Literacy: Students adapt novels into theatrical performances, analyzing character motivation and theme
• In Social Studies: Students create documentary films, museum exhibits, or original music to explore historical events and perspectives
Dream Academy is a conversion charter school of a Baltimore City Public School called Thomas Jefferson Elementary Middle School (through the 2024/25 School year) and Dream Academy (for the 2025/26 School Year). To view academic performance, enrollment data for Dream Academy prior to its conversion to a charter school, please visit the Maryland Report Card at the link below. Dream Academy Charter School data will be updated at the completion of the 2026/27 School Year.