At Bay City Academy, we belive that quality education includes teaching good character.  What better way to devlop well-balanced students than to incoprorate physical fitness and athletics into our program?  Check out the story on MLive!

Bay City Academy is free, our students operate classroom businesses, and we eventually want to include grades kindergarten through 12. Did you know all that?

Those facts and more are included in a recent MLive.com article about Bay City Academy's plans for expansion, which include the addition of 200 new students and 25 new teachers. You can see the full MLive article here.

Want to know even more about why Bay City Academy is different? Check out our Top 10 Reasons to Enroll.

Mrs. Spindler wrote a grant that awarded Bay City Academy over 3,500 books. The mix of early readers, chapter books, and board books came in as class sets and at no cost, but with one catch... they had to be picked up in Minneapolis, Minnesota! Mrs. Berry’s parents happen to live in Minneapolis and volunteered to take time off, pick up our U-Haul trailer and drive them all the way here. Please give a huge thank you to Mrs. Berry and her family for loading them up and delivering them to our school and to Mrs. Spindler for writing and organizing the grant. The books arrived on Friday, April 20th and the BCA staff literally jumped in to help upload.

Character Education trains students to "see" the future consequences of current actions so they learn to choose well throughout their lives. Bay City Academy's Character Education programs are woven into every part of the school day. Character traits are applied to daily life through service learning projects. These projects connect our curriculum with the inherent caring and concern young people have for their world. Classmates choose projects that benefit others. They plan, coordinate and implement ideas to completion. Character Education report cards are sent to parents four times per year so that teachers, parents and students can celebrate accomplishments and plan for improvement.

• Work Ethic: Working hard and sustaining effort leading to feeling good about a job well done.
• Getting Along: Contributing to and gaining from positive relationships.
• Kindness: Thinking and acting in ways that show you care.
• Respect: Acting in a way that shows that I am valuable, you are valuable and we as a group are valuable.
• Responsibility: Choosing to act in a way that takes care of oneself and contributes to the common good.
• Optimism: Expecting good things today and in the future.

This graphic is drawn by our resident artist, Jeremy. We use humorous pictures like this in our instructional methods. These cartoons help to remember multiple steps and keep information orderly. This one represents "Six Character Traits" or "6 Carrot Tray."