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The slogan "Learning MI Way" expresses HFE's commitment to your child's success. Your child will learn through his or her best learning style. Hickory Flat Elementary teachers create opportunities for children to learn and express what is learned through real world, project-based activities. These learning opportunities are called "Innovation Stations". Innovation Stations are hands-on, highly engaging, rigorous, well-planned learning times which occur twice daily in addition to the core academic times. All instruction is aligned to the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) and HFE promises to provide a foundation that builds for future success in middle school, high school and beyond. The Multiple Intelligence model is the tool that we use to accomplish that promise.

Students have the opportunity to participate in two Innovation Stations (clubs) each quarter. Please see the attached Parent Guides (choice sheets) to view the options for each grade level.

In 1895, Madison's first graded school building was built to house Madison students, grades one through seven. The term "graded school", molded into the terra cotta panel over the door of the red-brick school house, refers to the progressive educational facility that offered the citizens of Madison a separate classroom for each grade. The students were not mingled into one or two rooms as they were in many of the outlying schools. The building was also one of the first brick schools in the area. Later a separate building was built for high school students, grades eight through eleven and, even later, a lunch room building and gymnasium were added to the property.

The Teaching Museum provides hands-on educational exhibits and arts-based programming that engage students in the Humanities, Language Arts, Mathematics, Sciences, and Fine Arts, with the goal of improving student achievement.

The Museum introduces students from kindergarten through twelfth-grade to fundamental concepts in creative and imaginative ways. All programs are curriculum-based and support the Georgia Standards of Excellence.

To a large extent the quality of this research is based upon the information and knowledge associated with the 11 collections affiliated with the Georgia Museum of Natural History. These collections represent research conducted in dozens of fields of study. They are crucial for graduate research and training programs in their respective academic departments. Each year the personnel associated with these collections generate approximately 100 scientific publications and average over $1,500,000 in contracts and grants. The collections themselves represent voucher specimens for the research and the data associated with each of the collections contains an important base for future research.