About
Our School
Dominion Purpose Academy is a proposed 4-8 tuition-free charter school in Columbus, GA. Our academic model is project-based with real-world relevance. We focus on relationships, rigor, and relevance to meet the needs of our students. We plan to open in Fall 2025.
Meet our Executive Director
Dr. LaTasha Adams is from Columbus, GA and has been an educational professional for over two decades. After graduating from Spelman College, she joined Teach For America and taught middle school with the Atlanta Public Schools. Since then she has served as a charter school principal, curriculum specialist, school director, and recently was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor Education.
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She earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction/Urban Education and her impact spans to all of the regions in Georgia. She has also served regionally, nationally, and internationally. In summer 2023, she traveled to Ghana and had to privilege to work with teachers and students in Ghanaian villages.
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Dr. Adams believes that all children can learn at a high level when given the right support and she is excited to partner with the DPA community! She recently completed the BEST and Georgia State Charter Incubator Fellowship and is currently in the Z Combinator Fellowship. Each of these prestigious fellowships. support Dominion Purpose Academy's design process.
Mission
The mission of Dominion Purpose Academy is to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of confident thinkers to learn on purpose through relationships, rigor, and relevance.
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Academics
Our interdisciplinary approach to learning includes rigorous academic programming through the Design Thinking Model. In this model, students become designers of solutions to everyday problems using 21st century skills: critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, community, and choice. This project-based learning method allows students to work in design labs integrating a variety of content areas. Since the Pandemic, the entire world has had to pivot and focus on confident thinkers to provide solutions to new problems. Our students will be equipped to think through similar real-world challenges and provide multiple solutions.
Leadership
Servant leadership teaches the principles of empathy, self awareness, communication, commitment to development, visionary community, building trust, respectful decision making, and responsible stewardship of resources. Students will hone these principles as they design and implement Purpose Projects created in the design lab. This also allows students to build relationships with the community both inside and outside of the school building. Connecting PBIS and servant leadership allows students to collaborate with each other and the outside community to become current emergent leaders.
Community Involvement
The recent Pandemic demonstrated the importance of home, school, and community connections to academic achievement and social/emotional well-being. For this reason, community voices helped shape the design of DPA and the community will continue to work alongside us.
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Families: Families are the cornerstone of DPA. Our staff will create Purpose Parent Pods to intentionally connect with families before, during, and after the school year.
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Community: Community members will serve as facilitators of Purpose Projects.
Board of Directors
Dr. Shae Anderson, The Co-Work Boutique
Mr. Vernon Bryant, Columbus Technical College
Ms. Delecia Butts, DMB and Associates
Mr. Gary Daniel, Synovous
Ms. Katina James, Columbia Theological Seminary
​Melanie Williams, Esq. Miller Williams Law Group
Dr. Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge, West Georgia University
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