Mission/Goals

Mission

The mission of The Community Public Charter School is to provide an alternative and innovative learning environment, using the arts, to help children in grades six through eight learn in ways that match their learning styles and develop the whole child intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially.   Seeking to serve students who have not succeeded in school, the program will close their achievement gap by offering a balance of literacy tutorials and the arts-infused curriculum.

Goals

• Expand opportunities for students who have not been successful in school, using the arts as a means of  increasing literacy skills, and as a means of expression, discovery, invention and reflection;
  
• Create an intimate educational setting designed to engage and empower each student to think critically, creatively and reflectively;
  
• Provide opportunities for students to achieve in literary, performing, and visual arts;
  
• Help students learn self-responsibility, self-discipline, self-direction and self-nurturing;
  
• Create possibilities where all students are an important part of something larger than themselves: family, school, community, and world.
  
• Design extensive process-oriented activities that result in a balance of process and product;
  
• Integrate educational experiences within the community and solicit active involvement from parents and others;
  
• Provide quality instruction by engaging and retaining a team of dedicated teachers and professional artists;
  
• Give students the skills to pursue their own goals and evaluate their own performance;
  
• Encourage family involvement as a contributor to success; and,
  
• Teach students to think like artists.