Visit the new Creative Education Academy!  We will be open for visitors and registration through August at the following times:

   * Mondays through Thursdays 9:00 am - 12:00 pm 
   * Tuesdays through Thursdays 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
   * By appointment 

Teachers and/or staff will be available to answer your questions. The school is located in the former Jessie Clark Christian School building at 1451 Jessie Clark Lane near OK Ward Park. Click on the "Location" link above to see photos of the building.

Who are we?

The Creative Education Academy is an elementary school (half-day and full-day Kindergarten through 6th grade), founded and operated by parents, based on the Cre-Act Way. 


What is the Cre-Act Way?

The Cre-Act Way was developed by Sister Dorothy Prokes, founder of the former Franciscan Cre-Act School in Pocatello, Idaho. The Cre-Act Way is briefly defined in Prokes' book as a "form of instruction which involves the total person -- physical body, mind, senses, imagination, emotions, power of speech, and concentration in the learning process." The purpose of this highly successful program "is to provide the situations which will enable the student to experience life as it evolves in the real world in ways commensurate to that student's ability to comprehend." (Prokes, 2009, p. 12-13).

More information about the Cre-Act Way can be found in Sister Dorothy Prokes' book and instructor's manual, A Road Map to Education, The Cre-Act Way, published by University Press of America.


Why Use the Cre-Act Way?

Traditionally, the goals of education were to master the accumulated wisdom and ideas of the past. We must prepare our children beyond these goals if they are to thrive in today’s world. Society requires us to be adaptable, to be capable of managing and developing solutions for complex situations, and to resolving conflict peacefully. To meet these demands, we must nurture children’s imagination, creativity and inventiveness. We must teach our children to explore the known, as well as the unknown.

The Cre-Act Way was developed with consideration for our past heritage, our current challenges, and our future possibilities. It is an approach to helping our children build a life which is not alien and confusing, but one in which a child touches and in turn is touched by truth, beauty, justice and love.

Quality education requires a more creative environment, better curriculum design, and time to develop resources, ideas and means of experimentation. Recent research indicates that not all students learn the same way, and that for some, the right side of the brain with its aesthetic and creative powers plays a dominant role in the learning process.