Mission Statement

As a member of the TIEE family of schools, Mt. Helix Academy operates in keeping with the Mission of TIEE, which was adopted by the Board of Directors in 2008 and is presented below.

TIEE Mission Statement

“The Institute for Effective Education (TIEE) is dedicated to schooling that is unparalleled in scope of curriculum, effectiveness of instruction, and pervasiveness of positive ambience. To achieve this goal, TIEE is committed to using the principles and methods established by behavioral science research of the highest standard in order to educate children, adolescents, and young adults, whose talents span the full spectrum of ability.

TIEE accepts responsibility for a comprehensive curriculum that embraces the full range of potential for its students. It is a curriculum that fosters high academic achievement, education of character, citizenship, friendship, self-management, and love of learning. The choice of this curriculum underscores TIEE’s dual commitment to developing students who not only excel in scholarship, but who also become quality members of the community.

In order to implement its curriculum, TIEE resolves to choose teaching materials that have proved successful with real students in real classrooms or to develop its own materials in accordance with well-established behavioral principles. TIEE is committed to the use of teaching methods that have the weight of scientific evidence, including the following practices:
• Frequent positive consequences for desirable student behavior;
• High rates of student responding to instructionally relevant tasks;
• Direct teaching of the skills, knowledge, and procedures that students must know to achieve at high levels; and
• Regular collection and evaluation of student performance data to make timely instructional decisions for individual students.

TIEE is devoted to maintaining a positive ambience that characterizes its facilities and the interaction of all individuals associated with the organization, including, most importantly, the interaction between staff members and students. To this end, TIEE is committed to teaching what is expected and to “catching ‘em being good.”

Finally, the dynamic development of TIEE and its schools is fostered by the on-going training of all teaching staff members in those methods and materials that have the weight of scientific evidence. This training is extended to all educators who share our interest as an expression of TIEE’s commitment to bring positive, effective schooling to all students, everywhere.”