2024-04-30T07:45:41-04:00 2023-06-30 990 2022-07-01 237291698 THE PRINCIPLED ACADEMY INC % Dr Mose Durst PRIN 5103516400 2929 Avalon Ave Berkeley CA 94705 Mose Durst President 2024-04-30 false 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Dr Mose Durst 2929 Avalon Ave Berkeley CA 94705 1015391 false X www.valuesandvirtues.org X 1973 CA To create a safe nurturing learning environment with the partnership of parents and teachers to help students from preschool thru 8th grade achieve academic and moral excellence in community with others. 7 4 54 40 0 0 64682 26850 1109749 146103 15741 -15039 1717 -82 1191889 157832 0 0 0 0 953309 276568 0 0 0 262923 114139 1216232 390707 -24343 -232875 924080 686751 52052 3619 872028 683132 X To create a safe nurturing learning environment with the partnership of parents and teachers to help students from preschool thru 8th grade achieve academic and moral excellence in community with others. false true 372280 0 146103 The Principled Academy TPA was founded with five children in a garage. It has grown to encompass an extraordinarily diverse group of 120 students from preschool through 8th grade. Students learn from an early age to get along with and to value others from different races ethnicities religions and socio-economic backgrounds. TPA does not just prepare students for an inter-connected world it enables them to directly experience world peace on a manageable level every day. Our special foci are character education social and emotional learning and academic excellence. Our small class sizes and qualified and experienced teaching staff enable each student to be individually understood and to flourish. The TPA early childhood preschool and kindergarten classes CA license XXX-XX-XXXX is in the initial phase of the multi-year accreditation process with the National Association for the Education of Young Children a premier accrediting body for early childhood programs. We accept up to 34 preschoolers in two classrooms with four teachers and an aide and up to 18 kindergarten students with a teacher and an associate teacher. This is significantly more beneficial to our preschoolers than the legal ratio of one teacher for 12 preschool students. By having more qualified caring adults in the classrooms each child can experience more individual attention with adults helping the child tease out the implications of what s he is observing thereby extending the child's exciting discovery of new knowledge. The opportunity to hear complex sentences regularly helps develop his her pre-reading skills. Discipline challenges are also minimized as alert staff members can redirect students before behavior incidents occur. Parents receive bi-weekly e-newsletters about the lessons being covered so they can engage in stimulating conversations with their children. All of our students preschool through 8th grade have a dedicated class period each day for character education and social emotional learning. Each month is dedicated to a specific virtue and related community service. The school day in each class begins with a teacher reading stories or biographies of people who exemplify each virtue or older students sharing an original skit puppet show or video designed to help younger students understand principled behavior. Each month the school as a whole participates in a community service learning project which helps students to experience first-hand the power they have even as young people to contribute to the common good. Examples include visiting senior centers with hand-made cards for the seniors performing for and reading to seniors; caroling at community venues; raising money for UNICEF through a very popular TPA celebration called Trunk or Treat; conducting a Bike-A-Thon on behalf of research organizations like the American Heart Association and the National MS Multiple Sclerosis Society; doing a canned food drive for the Alameda County Food Bank and volunteering at the Food Bank for older students and so on. Learning the value of and practicing habits of good character like our Core Values Respect Integrity Honesty Caring and Leadership positively impacts our students academic performance. With small classes approximately 10-15 students per grade and qualified and experienced teachers TPA students have support which helps them to develop their academic potential to the fullest. About half of our 8th grade graduates attend private schools mainly Catholic high schools like Bishop O Dowd St. Joseph Notre Dame and Moreau and half attend local public schools. Even though TPA is small 135 students our 8th graders have attained key leadership positions e.g. class president student body president in both public and private high schools. In their 7th and 8th grade years our students have a weekly class in Oratory where they learn to speak effectively to a small group. This helps them to express their ideas clearly in high school and college. Principled Academy alumni have matriculated at prestigious universities including UC Berkeley UCLA UC Davis UC San Diego the Air Force Academy Harvey Mudd College the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC Smith College Santa Clara University St. Mary's College various Cal State University campuses and others. Since the school's founding in 1988 some of our older alumni have completed or are currently pursuing graduate degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology UC Berkeley UC Merced San Francisco State University Cal State University East Bay and other fine institutions. We are proud of their accomplishments. TPA sponsors both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts on our campus. Several of our former students have returned to our campus during their high school years to complete a project which benefits The Principled Academy as an integral part of earning the highly prestigious Eagle Scout award. We are touched by their sincere desire to assist their alma mater and greatly impressed with their enthusiastic and professional efforts. The Principled Academy is certified to accept foreign students through the Student Exchange Visitor Program of the United States government. 372280 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false true 2 0 true 54 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false X 7 4 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false true true true false CA X Dr Mose Durst 5103516400 2929 Avalon Ave Berkeley CA 94705 Dr Mose Durst Director President Teacher 10.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Kristina Seher Director Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Alan Seher Director Treasurer Vice President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Noah Ross Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matthew Morrison Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kevin Thompson Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Steven Jares Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Isaac Durst Head of School 40.00 0.00 X 75000 0 750 75000 0 750 0 false false false 0 0 1034 0 11334 14482 450 26850 Tuition and Registration 611600 146103 146103 0 0 146103 3482 0 0 3482 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 837079 1427 857027 0 -19948 1427 -18521 0 0 -18521 450 1034 532 -82 0 -82 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 157832 146103 0 -15121 75000 75000 0 0 0 0 0 0 180370 180370 0 0 -323 -323 0 0 547 547 0 0 20974 20974 0 0 1300 0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 1592 1592 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3159 0 3159 0 7290 7290 0 0 12544 12544 0 0 3923 5131 -1208 0 2077 2077 0 0 0 0 0 0 17632 17632 0 0 40 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 821 254 567 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31534 18551 12983 0 11199 9250 1949 0 General Operating expenses 9371 9371 0 0 Instruction related expenses 8826 8826 0 0 Staff development 2831 2831 0 0 390707 371957 18750 0 62489 7660 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1357 1038 1165591 783439 413686 382152 446548 295901 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 924080 686751 25195 3619 0 0 26857 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 52052 3619 X 0 0 0 0 872028 683132 872028 683132 924080 686751 -232875 43979 0 0 0 0 X false false false X 54106 217612 61552 64682 27300 425252 24771 22707 2600 7599 1156 58833 964284 911631 817734 1109749 146103 3949501 1043161 1151950 881886 1182030 174559 4433586 0 0 0 0 9500 9500 0 0 0 0 9500 9500 4424086 4649 4214 6496 8259 3482 27100 4649 4214 6496 8259 3482 27100 1047810 1156164 888382 1190289 178041 4460686 0.9918 0.9948 0.0061 0.0052 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 67498 0 67498 300000 0 196000 104000 764308 0 567925 196383 33785 0 19514 14271 0 0 0 0 382152 Isaac Durst Son of Dr. Mose Durst 75000 Employment as Head of School false Part III, line 3 The school was closed in this fiscal year. The focus has been moved to making a character education website with products to support teachers teach character education. Part VI, Line 2 | Employee:, Relationship:, Employee:| Dr Mose Durst, Family Relationship, Isaac Durst| Alan Seher, Family Relationship, Kristina Seher| Kristina Seher, Family Relationship, Matthew Morrison| Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Dr. Mose Durst and Kristina meet regularly to discuss completing Form 990. The governing body is sent the draft Form 990 and consulted for feedback before filing. Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The directors review and sign the policy every year. Part VI, Section B, Line 15 | Name of the Person:, The process used to establish compensation of the person who served in:|, The year in which this process was last undertaken:| Isaac Durst, The Board reviewed compensation schedules for similar private and local public schools. They offered a comparable range of compensation to the key employee., 2016| Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The documents are kept in the office and made available upon request.