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Academics
Education at Community Prep is a partnership between the school and the family. Together we help students work toward success in every aspect of life. While the school's curriculum focuses primarily on the in-school components of the students' education, we rely heavily on parent participation for the success of the program. Parental interest, involvement and support of students, as exemplified in the school's core values of RESPECT, are essential. The school's core values of RESPECT: Responsible Role Model, Enthusiasm, Support, Preparedness, Effort, Challenge and Communication, and Trustworthiness and Truthfulness, are outlined in the student-parent-teacher contracts, which all parties sign. In these contracts, we promise to make the most of the Community Prep educational opportunity and to honor its core values. A Summary of the Curriculum The school is divided into four learning families (3rd - 5th grade, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade). Each learning family has a faculty team responsible for teaching the five core disciplines: reading, writing, math, science and social studies. A creative arts teacher works with each team to integrate the visual and performing arts, and a technology teacher coordinates computer and internet skills with each class. In addition, all students have Spanish, health, and physical education classes. At the outset of every marking period, students, parents and teachers meet to set personal goals for the child. Students regularly review progress toward these goals throughout the grading period. All members of the student-parent-teacher team must contribute effort toward achieving these goals, and the goals are assessed and modified at subsequent meetings. Students are better able to construct meaning and learn analytic and processing skills when more than one of the disciplines is applied to a common theme. By working simultaneously on the same material from a number of different perspectives, students discover greater depth of understanding and unanticipated, interesting interrelationships. In September of 1996, the faculty adopted the Responsive Classroom(TM) approach -- a collection of teaching practices designed to enhance the quality of both academic and social skills development. The Responsive Classroom(TM) includes a balance of teacher-directed instruction and child-initiated learning, and it fosters caring behavior and problem-solving ability both socially and academically. Community service has a special place in Community Prep's curriculum. Many of the community service projects are conducted in the immediate neighborhood - some are local, school-based projects while others reach into the surrounding community. This year's projects include visiting residents at a nursing home, reading to children in the local Head Start program, and a school-wide recycling program. At Community Prep there is far more to teaching than just reading, writing and arithmetic. Our excellent, dedicated faculty, through inspired teaching, instills in students a quest for knowledge that will last a lifetime. |
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