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"Every child is just one caring adult away from being a success story"
Joshua Shipp
Joshua Shipp
WHAT IS THE EAGLE HOUSE MODEL?
The Eagle Academy for Young Men utilizes a house model that is designed to promote the Five Pillars of
the Eagle Scholar (Commitment to Excellence, Effort, Resilience, Confidence, and Leadership). While the essential elements of character development and personal responsibility to one’s self and the group is a focus in all classes and school functions; these elements are specifically taught during the scholarship experience. This distributive counseling system divides each group of approximately 81-100 young men into
six houses consisting of 14-18 scholars.
HOUSE MODEL
There are six houses each named after a prominent male that consistently exhibited the five elements of Eagle Scholarship (Commitment to Excellence, Effort, Resilience, Confidence, and Leadership). Each house will examine the life of the person for which their house is named and develop a detailed knowledge of how and why they are considered Eagle Scholars. This examination assists in building a level of pride in
each house member, while also creating a reference point for scholars to define the elements of Eagle
Scholarship as they have been applied by these individuals in a real world context.
HOUSE MODEL OBJECTIVES
• Create a system of distributive counseling that provides scholar to scholar support, scholar to educator
support, and educator to educator support.
• Systematically develops, assesses, and reinforces essential components of sound character and being
an Eagle Scholar.
• Incorporates a system of scholar government into the house model. All houses will have a captain that
will voice the individual concerns of its members. Houses will also have a co-captain.
• Provides a structure that vertically aligns young men at Eagle Academy at different grade levels. This
vertical alignment provides the framework for the peer mentoring model that will be implemented as
the Eagle Scholar (Commitment to Excellence, Effort, Resilience, Confidence, and Leadership). While the essential elements of character development and personal responsibility to one’s self and the group is a focus in all classes and school functions; these elements are specifically taught during the scholarship experience. This distributive counseling system divides each group of approximately 81-100 young men into
six houses consisting of 14-18 scholars.
HOUSE MODEL
There are six houses each named after a prominent male that consistently exhibited the five elements of Eagle Scholarship (Commitment to Excellence, Effort, Resilience, Confidence, and Leadership). Each house will examine the life of the person for which their house is named and develop a detailed knowledge of how and why they are considered Eagle Scholars. This examination assists in building a level of pride in
each house member, while also creating a reference point for scholars to define the elements of Eagle
Scholarship as they have been applied by these individuals in a real world context.
HOUSE MODEL OBJECTIVES
• Create a system of distributive counseling that provides scholar to scholar support, scholar to educator
support, and educator to educator support.
• Systematically develops, assesses, and reinforces essential components of sound character and being
an Eagle Scholar.
• Incorporates a system of scholar government into the house model. All houses will have a captain that
will voice the individual concerns of its members. Houses will also have a co-captain.
• Provides a structure that vertically aligns young men at Eagle Academy at different grade levels. This
vertical alignment provides the framework for the peer mentoring model that will be implemented as
