At Literacy First, we
strive to create a community where…
• … literacy
includes culture and language
The number one
priority of LFCS is literacy. As defined by Webster, literacy is
the process of being educated and cultured. LFCS interprets that
to mean fluency and skilled ability with the written and spoken
word as well as technology, math, science, media, history, the
arts and contemporary culture.
• … all children
are known
The objective is to
create small communities where in a non-threatening safe
environment students are free to risk and creativity can
flourish. Children will be known and their strengths and
weaknesses recognized and acted upon.
• … all staff is
invested in the success of each individual
LFCS will employ
instructors and personnel, in general that are passionately
contagious about the love for learning and possess an enthusiasm
for teaching and being involved in the lives of students.
• … educational
success is expected for all students
The intent is not to
merely re-arrange the chairs but to develop an exciting creative
environment with rich, demanding curriculum in which every
student has the opportunity to succeed.
• … children are
embraced as unique and creative individuals
Students will be
grouped according to their “talent development”, rather than in
traditional age-graded classes in core academic areas
• … nurturing the
whole child, is regarded as the norm, rather than the exception.
Individual needs of
our students, including physical, emotional and financial needs
will be addressed. Likewise, a community of family members will
be drawn into the school environment where parents are
recognized as invaluable resources to not only their own
children, but to the school family at large.
• … parents are
valued as an integral part of the “team."
A community of
family members will be drawn into the school environment where
parents are recognized as invaluable resources to not only their
own children, but to the school family at large.
• … research proven
methods and techniques are employed
LFCS will implement
time tested reform ideas, as well as techniques practiced over
years of teaching. A program that is rich in diversity of
teaching techniques and materials, solidly academic in nature,
decidedly unique in the approach taken towards student’s and
their individual learning strengths and weaknesses, and provide
an environment that because of teacher and community buy-in is
passionately contagious with regard to instilling into children
a curiosity for learning and a desire to achieve.
• … technology in
integrated into the school routine
LFCS will be a
technologically rich environment where technology is a tool, not
a teaching machine.
• … business
resources are essential to the total development
Linking the
community to the school is critical to the 21st century in an
effort to make real life experiences bridge over to education.
Linking available community resources in a comprehensive,
integrated approach that prevents barriers between the school,
home and community would prove only a positive step in the total
education of each individual.
• … education is
viewed as a process, not a product that enables students to go
from learning to read to reading to learn
In the end, LFCS
desires to
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Develop literate,
capable students that will become lifelong learners,
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Build an environment
of family and community that nurtures the whole child and
supports our educational venture,
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Assess student
progress on a continuing basis in order to provide students with
the most positive, productive educational experience possible.
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Provide professional
development to assure quality programs and stellar teachers,
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Use technology as a
tool to develop completely competent citizens in the 21st
century,
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Operate a fiscally
sound and highly successful charter school
