Our Philosophy
Humanex Academy’s philosophy of education is based on two important premises: any student can learn and human beings enjoy learning. With this philosophy as our guide, Humanex helps students experience success in academics and in their personal and work relationships.
Why is Humanex Different?
Humanex Academy recognizes that every student is unique and must be treated as such. Therefore, our goal is to create a unique learning environment in which young people who have struggled academically and socially will succeed. The environment at Humanex promotes academic success and helps students establish healthy boundaries and take individual responsibility. For more than 25 years, Humanex has been helping students graduate. Our program has three core elements: an individualized academic curriculum, extensive counseling support and behavior management based on Love and Logic.
Individualized Academic Curriculum
We provide significant individualized instruction, tailored to each child’s s abilities, to help students become life-long learners. A key difference of our academic approach is that students never receive a failing grade. If a student earns a grade lower than 75 percent on any assignment, he or she works with the teacher to make corrections or have the skill and content assessed in a different way. With this mastery approach, students learn to both ask for help and correct their errors. As a result, concepts and skills are truly learned, and students are never passed on to the next academic course without mastering the current one.
Furthermore, our small class sizes help students feel safe at school and limit distractions, allowing teachers to be more effective in direct instruction. Through this enhanced attention, students earn better grades and fulfill their potential for attending college, despite their learning disabilities or differences. We provide parents with daily progress reports so at the end of any school day, parents can see exactly what their child did that day. Our efforts are focused on helping students become motivated, engaged learners despite their learning challenges.
Extensive Counseling
The uniqueness and depth of counseling at Humanex is an important difference between our program and others in the Denver Metro Area. Our counseling program is based on the philosophy that students with severe anxiety, bipolar disorder, Asperger’s Disorder and other social and emotional challenges can learn skills to be better friends, family members and employees. We provide counseling and emotional support, coordinated with other mental health and education services to help students develop positive relationships and healthy emotional problem-solving. The techniques we use range from direct instruction of how to read facial expressions, to skills for coping with anxiety conflict resolution and beyond. The goal is that all students improve their emotional intelligence, learn to respect boundaries, learn to appropriately advocate for themselves and better handle stress. Counseling is individualized for each student’s needs and often takes place in a relaxed informal setting.
Advantages of Love and Logic
Love and Logic is a technique that teachers and administrators utilize to help students make better choices and is the foundation for much of our program’s success with students. Love and Logic is based on sharing control with students and administering consequences with empathy. It has applications in both academics and counseling. For more information about how we apply Love and Logic and the training our teachers receive, please contact our admissions coordinator.