When we care, we succeed.

Your child will flourish in our caring, diverse community that values community, equity, and excellence.

Smart Moves Academy is America’s first non-profit private school to optimize learning through physical activity, where learners are nurtured to become balanced scholars, effective collaborators, adaptable leaders, and ethical advocates who respect human diversity.

Our Guiding Tenets

We are crew, not passengers. Adults and children are strengthened by acts of consequential service to others, and one of our school’s primary functions is to prepare young people with the attitudes and skills to learn from and be of service to others.
Learning is fostered best in communities where everyone’s ideas are respected and where there is mutual trust. Learning groups are intentionally small with a caring adult looking after progress and acting as an advocate for each child. Older students mentor younger ones, and students feel physically and emotionally safe.
Both diversity inclusion increase the richness of ideas, creative power, problem-solving ability, respect for others. Students investigate and learn to value their different histories and talents, as well as those of other communities cultures. Schools learning groups heterogeneous.
We acknowledge how privilege, power, and oppression are integral to our understanding of justice, equity, and liberation. We teach peaceful conflict resolution. We are unapologetically anti-racist, pro environment, and pro peace.

Our Mission

To be of extraordinary benefit to children by teaching and learning in the manner that science says works best: in active, diverse, healthy environments.
Our Vision

To graduate thriving learners whose academic mastery, physical literacy, and emotional well-being position them to prosper and lead, generating positive impact wherever they go.
Our Students

Sixty kindergarten through third-grade learners are embarking on a new, more effective way of learning in August 2024. The Academy will expand by one grade level each year through 8th grade in 2029.
Our Location

Our facility search is active and includes communities in St. Petersburg and Tampa. Smart Moves Academy is planned as a network of schools opening three to five locations in metro Tampa/St. Pete over the next 10 years.