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URBAN COLLABORATIVE ACCELERATED PROGRAM MISSION, VISION,
VALUES STATEMENT
MISSION
The Urban Collaborative Accelerated
Program seeks to intervene in the lives of adolescents at
risk of dropping out. We strive to create a supportive
community that motivates students with a coherent, relevant,
and challenging accelerated program that will help them
attain the academic and social skills necessary for success
in high school and in life. We stress the importance of
achieving at high levels by taking responsibility, setting
goals, working hard, taking risks, and having fun.
VISION
We will have a positive effect on the
lives of adolescents at risk of school failure by helping
them develop the skills, attitudes, habits, and behaviors
necessary to complete high school. Our families will be
engaged in their children's education and the life of the
school. UCAP will demonstrate improvement in students'
academic achievement and acceleration rates every year. We
will advocate for the creation of other schools and programs
based upon the UCAP model.
VALUES
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We enroll students who have been
retained-in-grade and exhibit other
characteristics that suggest they are in danger of
dropping out.
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Our students and their families care
about their futures, and we embrace the diversity of
backgrounds and viewpoints that they bring to our
learning community.
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Our students possess many assets,
and will assume responsibility for their own learning
and achieve at high levels.
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Our students will advance-in-grade
at an accelerated rate when presented with challenging
and flexible learning plans, a supportive and structured
community, and clear expectations of high performance
from all members.
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Valuable learning goes on beyond the
traditional boundaries of the school day, school year,
or school building, so we partner with students?
families, community-based organizations, businesses,
foundations, and other groups that have a stake in the
success of all children.
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An effective learning community,
based upon best practices, helps students become
successful life-long learners, so our educators will do
whatever it takes to ensure the success of each child,
and to be held accountable for the results.
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All members of the UCAP learning
community are committed to their own on-going
development in order to be able to help students achieve
at the highest levels.
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We are committed to school-based
management with shared decision-making, exploration of
innovative ideas, use of best practices, and
experimentation.
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We believe that many more students
could benefit from our acceleration model than can be
accommodated at UCAP, and so we must advocate for and
seek opportunities to develop new schools based on our
model.
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