Basic Tenets of the MCCPS Charter
- Curriculum
- Integrated and organized around global themes
- Engaging and challenging
- Interactive and experimental
- Addresses intellectual, social, emotional, and physical needs of early adolescents
- Rigorous
- Encourages students to be active learners
- Students
- Recognition of students’ unique learning styles
- Emphasis on students’ self-directed learning
- Community involvement/Community Service Learning
- High level of competency in the basic skills
- Proficiency in critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Productive attitudes toward work
- Competence as a self-directed learner; ease with working in groups
- Ability to carry the school experience into the real world, through further education, work, family, and community and civic affairs.
- Faculty & Staff
- Commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and growth
- School climate and community relations
- Family involvement and participation
- MAP (“developing an individual learning plan for each student”
- Meaningful and/or Performance tasks
- Emphasis on home/school communication
- Adults as role models
- All
- Students, families, volunteers and staff will work together to design, commit to, and implement the multitude of choices for how to contribute
- Teachers as leaders, leaders as teachers, students as workers
- Skill in the use of technology
- Ongoing evaluation of all components of the school
