Vision
The educational community known as The Charter School of San Diego - Student Success Programs is committed to the development of a personalized instructional program that demonstrates positive outcomes for each student.
The Charter School of Diego is dedicated to the creation of instructional, service, organizational, and governance models that can serve as prototypes for educational reform.
The Charter San Diego is committed to collaborative efforts to improve the quality of life for students, their families, its employees, and the San Diego community at large.
Mission
The Charter School of San Diego will implement personalized educational programs to facilitate student achievement. These educational programs will demonstrate that standards based educational reform can provide a prototype for changing the way teachers teach and students learn in the future.
Objectives
The Charter School of San Diego will achieve these objectives:
- Improve pupil learning.
- Increase learning opportunities for all pupils, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for pupils who are identified as academically low achieving.
- Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods.
- Create new professional opportunities for teachers, including the opportunity to be responsible for the learning program at CSSD.
- Provide parents and pupils with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities available within the publicly funded school system.
- Hold CSSD accountable for meeting measurable pupil outcomes and provide CSSD with a method to employ a performance-based accountability system instead of a rule-based system.
Basic Values
CSSD employs individuals who are oriented for success at CSSD. This brief outline of absolute values identifies for the candidate the key concepts upon which the school was established and operates.
- Kids come first.
- Education at CSSD is personalized, individualized, and high quality.
- CSSD is made up of a community of highly professional people. These committed individuals are independent, self-motivated, high-energy people who speak for themselves. They work to create a positive, challenging environment that is centered on teaching and learning.
- CSSD is committed to the creation of educational reform models centered on how effective educational organizations run, how teachers teach, and students learn.
- CSSD employees are accountable for their work.
- People-centered teams focus onsupporting quality teaching and learning. Performance is measured on a variety of indicators that include productivity, credit ratio, auditability, quality, performance and commitment to the vision of CSSD.
- CSSD is committed to the improvement of the quality of life for students, their families and the community at large.
- CSSD uses business principles in managing the school.
