Achievement Character Excellence Program
The A.C.E. Club program is held during the school year.

Our Mission
The A.C.E. Club promotes interpersonal and organizational success through group cooperation and a supportive environment, while fostering meaningful connections with the school community.

Our Commitment
The Kyrene School District and the Supplemental Student Services Department recognize that young people today face many difficult issues, problems and decisions. Low academic achievement may be only one of the many social needs. Students with the greatest needs can often show signs of anti-social and/or negative behaviors, poor academic habits, family issues or circumstances that may interfere with learning. The A.C.E. Club is a program that helps students, who feel unsuccessful in school, focus on Achievement and character for Excellence, and is the District's answer to addressing the students with the greatest needs.

Our Program
A.C.E. meets before school and recruits district teachers to provide vital morning interactions and offer an inviting reason for students to attend school. Teachers are available throughout the school day to have meaningful associations with the students and their classroom teachers. The teachers track and monitor any areas of concern as well as the students daily academic progress.

• Leadership
  The adventure leadership approach establishes behavioral guidelines that recognize and respect the skills, knowledge and strengths of each individual, while valuing and supporting the groups as a whole. Activities are designed to:

  • Increase group cooperation and productivity through effective teamwork

  • Develop positive problem solving and collaborative decision making skills

  • Increase positive self-esteem and build self-awareness

  • Encourage appropriate social interaction while reinforcing creativity and self-expression

  • Increase trust for one another while working together to solve a common problem academics

• Academics
  Time is set aside for academic instruction and structured homework completion. Teachers help improve student's study skills by helping organize folders, backpacks and agendas for the school year. The student to teacher ratio is approximately seven to one, allowing teachers to give the students the concentrated help and instruction they need to tackle more difficult academic situations.
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• Character
  Character-building activities based around trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship are used as a tool for learning and understanding daily activities through group discussions and debriefings. Students are asked to evaluate themselves in specific situations to create awareness of their surrounding and acknowledgement for how they influence peers, neighbors and surrounding community.

Your Support
The A.C.E. Club is a program that is constantly seeking revenue to support its expenses. Due to the nature of the program, we have a strong belief that charging tuition for students to attend would be ineffective. However, the A.C.E. Club operates solely on grant funds and community contributions, without such funding sources the Supplemental Student Services Department is unable to support the expense of the program.

A.C.E. Club is offered at the following schools:

• Kyrene Akimel A-al Middle School

• Kyrene Altadeña Middle School

• Kyrene Aprende Middle School

• Kyrene Centennial Middle School

• Kyrene Middle School Kyrene del

• Pueblo Middle School