Urban Choice Charter School Core Concepts
The Urban Choice Charter School’s educational program improves student learning and achievement in many ways:
- Implements a classroom management model school-wide that:
- Supports instructional continuity from classroom to classroom
- Promotes and supports personalized learning
- Holds students accountable for their own learning
- Increases home/school communication
- Provides daily adult support (resident physicians and others) to each classroom so students can have their academic and health needs attended to.
- Establishes supportive daily and weekly schedules for both students and teachers that are easy to follow and work within.
- Lengthens the school day by over an hour so learning is not rushed. There is increased time for learner decision-making.
- Provides a balance of content to satisfy individual learning preferences.
- Ensures that students learn to read at an early age.
- Has a teacher-support coordinator whose primary responsibility is to ensure that teachers are given what they need to establish and preserve dynamic classroom environments.
- Implements a fair but uncompromising discipline policy that is enforced.
- Recruits, hires and retains great teachers.
