Founder, Navira Christian Academy
Marshay Price is the founder of Navira Christian Academy and an advocate for Christ-centered education, spiritual formation, and community transformation. Her multidisciplinary background spans education, ministry leadership, child advocacy, healthcare, criminal justice, biblical studies, and cross-cultural engagement.
Through her work in education and community-based learning, Marshay has designed and facilitated literacy, humanities, enrichment, and youth learning experiences that emphasize critical thinking, communication, cultural understanding, and real-world application.
Her vision for NCA grew from a conviction that education should do more than transfer knowledge. It should help form the whole person—spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, and academically—while equipping students to grow in wisdom, character, purpose, and calling.
Marshay has designed and facilitated educational experiences for children and youth through community-based programs and educational partnerships. Her instructional approach emphasizes student engagement, critical thinking, discussion, literacy development, cultural understanding, and meaningful application.
Students have participated in article analysis, collaborative discussions, presentations, vocabulary development, writing activities, project-based learning, and interactive humanities experiences designed to strengthen literacy, communication, leadership, character formation, and global awareness.
Students engaged in close reading, vocabulary development, and collaborative discussion while examining multiple perspectives on immigration, human experience, and civic engagement through articles, media, and group reflection.
Through discussion-based learning, students analyzed contemporary issues, identified key themes, developed meaningful questions, and considered diverse perspectives while strengthening literacy and communication skills.
Students brought history to life through an interactive human timeline, collaboratively sequencing key events from the California Gold Rush while strengthening historical thinking, communication, and critical analysis.
Students explored themes of family, identity, displacement, and resilience through literacy activities connecting contemporary texts to real-world human experiences. Through reading, discussion, vocabulary development, and written reflection, students practiced analyzing perspectives and communicating their ideas thoughtfully.