Core Values
1. High Expectations for ALL Students
- College-readiness for all students
- Quality classroom instruction every day
- A-G college preparatory courses with a C or better
- How students learn best
- Rigorous standards-based curriculum and instruction
- Relevance through real-world applications
- Students know expectations they are to meet
- Students have ability to judge their own work
- Students participate actively in classroom and talk about what they are learning
- Authentic ongoing assessment and real-life application of their learning through projects
- Integrated Technology
- Access to technology for all students
- Standards-based instruction which incorporates use of technology by teachers
- Personalized Learning Environment
- Students know their teachers and are known as individuals by all adults in the school
- Teacher load of 75 students per day
- Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)
- Daily advisory
- Small Learning Community
- Maximum of 500 high school students
- Smaller classes, student to teacher ratio of 25:1
- Safe
- Student uniforms required
- Increased Time for Learning
- 190 regular days of classroom instruction
- Extended school day
- Extended supplemental learning time through after school tutoring and intervention programs
- 2-hour, uninterrupted instructional periods
- Principal Leadership
- Capable instructional leaders
- Entrepreneurs in managing resources
- In-depth leadership training
- Highly Qualified Teachers
- Teachers know their subject field, are fully credentialed
- Well trained to deliver rigorous instruction
- Weekly professional development as a community of learners
- Attend to the diverse needs of individual students
- Work in small collaborative teams with common planning time
- Accountability for student success is a shared responsibility
- Accountability for Results
- Principals and teachers accountable for implementing Alliance education model, core values, and achieving outcomes
- Compensation incentives based on performance
- Parents must be meaningfully and actively engaged
- Responsible and accountable for supporting their child’s learning at school and at home
- Understand what it will take to prepare their children for college
- Support the goals of the school
- Volunteer a minimum of 40 hours per year
- Sign and support the Parent/Student/School Compact
- Attend 4 Saturday Parent Academies annually
