Old Town Academy Welcomes Thiago Batista

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We are pleased to announce that Mr. Thiago Batista will be joining Old Town Academy K-8 Charter School as our school Learning Lab & I.T. Director.

See below for Mr. Batista’s Bio.

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Mr Batista has been working at OTA since third quarter but we want to officially welcome him to our teaching team for the 2014-2015 school year. OTA’s K-3 and 4-8 Computer Labs are dedicated to accelerating core skills and to helping classroom teachers teach the core curriculum and Mr. Batista understands their importance. Since Thiago joined the staff full time he has been doing great work helping OTA get through the new “Smarter Balanced” state testing trial, implement our new MAP testing (results will be sent home soon), and prepare the ground for the “Learning Acceleration Games” we have been installing on the new classroom iPads which your generous donations at the Wine & Dine are making possible).

Here are four sample “Learning Acceleration Games” for the iPad that are already big hits with the students who’ve tried them, for children & parents to try at home:

Education: Mr. Thiago graduated from University Catholic of Santos with a Bachelor of Computer Sciences in Santos, Brazil.

Hobbies: Playing soccer, surfing and flying.
Favorite Books/Things to Read: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho / New Yorker
Favorite Subject in School: Math

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Fun Facts: Mr. Batista moved to the United States from Brazil in 2003 and fell in love with California. He is a Private Pilot and loves to fly. He recently (this week!) passed his “complex airplane” exam.

As with Mr Watts and the submariner tests, OTA Projects Trees and Project Pass/Try Again checklists remind Mr Batista of the checklist he had to pass to earn his pilots license. OTA Students–think your Project Checklists are difficult? Here’s what Mr Batista had to learn to earn his Pilot’s license! 

  • Demonstrate satisfactory aeronautical knowledge on a knowledge test, including knowledge of the following areas:
    • Airspace rules and procedures for the airport where the solo flight will be performed
    • Flight characteristics and operational limitations for the make and model of aircraft to be flown
  • Receive and log flight training for the maneuvers and procedures appropriate to the make and model of aircraft to be flown, including:
    • Preflight preparation
    • Taxiing or surface operations, including run-ups
    • Takeoffs and landings, including normal and cross-wind
    • Straight and level flight, and turns in both directions
    • Climbs and climbing turns
    • Airport traffic patterns, including entry and departure procedures
    • Collision avoidance, wind shear avoidance, and wake turbulence avoidance
    • Descents, with and without turns, using high and low drag configurations
    • Flight at various airspeeds from cruise to slow flight
    • Stall entries from various flight attitudes and power combinations with recovery initiated at the first indication of a stall, and recovery from a full stall
    • Emergency procedures and equipment malfunctions
    • Ground reference maneuvers
    • Approaches to a landing area with simulated engine malfunctions
    • Slips to a landing
    • Go-arounds

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