Goals
- Promote a prevailing atmosphere of compassion, truth and justice within the home/school settings, which allows children to learn and grow in a safe and nurturing environment.
- Assist parents in realizing their responsibility as the primary role models for their children.
- Heighten parent and faculty awareness of the tremendous pressures that children face in a modern society.
Enhance the academic programs to ensure continued academic success by offering:
COMMUNICATIONS: Each student shall become proficient in reading, composition, listening, speech, understanding, interpreting, analyzing and synthesizing information
MATHEMATICS: Each student shall become proficient in the use of varied mathematical processes and applications to solve challenging problems and to create new ways of understanding information.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Each student shall become proficient in applying the processes of analysis, synthesis and evaluation to the solution of challenging scientific problems and in the application and understanding of technology in society.
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY: Each student shall understand the environment and the student's ecological relationship with it in order to recognize the importance of the quality of life in a healthy and balanced environment.
CITIZENSHIP: Each student shall understand local, State and United States history, geography, systems of government and economics and their relationship to the history, geography, systems of government and economics of other countries in the world and shall acquire and have opportunities to practice, in the school and in the community, the skills necessary for active participation in civic life.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES: Each student shall understand and appreciate the breadth of human accomplishment through the arts and humanities and shall have opportunities to practice creativity of thought and action and to demonstrate talent in the arts.
CAREER EDUCATION AND WORK: Each student shall explore varied career options and develop the skills and work habits needed to be a productive, contribution member of society and the understanding that life-long learning is necessary to maintain those behaviors, skills and attitudes.
WELLNESS AND FITNESS: Each student shall acquire and use the knowledge and skills necessary to promote individual family health and wellness.
HOME ECONOMICS: Each student shall understand and apply principles of money management, consumer behavior and child health to provide for personal and family needs.
South Florida School of Excellence is also committed to providing instruction through the curriculum in the following goals, which will not be used as a basis for state assessment:
SELF-WORTH: South Florida School of Excellence will help students develop capabilities, talents, self-understanding and a feeling of self-worth and acknowledge students for effort and achievement.
INFORMATION AND THINKING SKILLS: South Florida School of Excellence will help students develop the skills necessary to locate and manage information, solve problems and make decisions, including the processes of analysis, synthesis, creativity and evaluation.
LEARNING INDEPENDENTLY AND COLLABORATIVELY: South Florida School of Excellence will encourage students to become independent life-long learners and to collaborate with others in developing knowledge, skills and new ideas.
ADAPTABILITY TO CHANGE: South Florida School of Excellence will prepare students to grow and develop in a world in which change is normal and constant.
ETHICAL JUDGMENT: South Florida School of Excellence will teach students the importance of making ethical judgments for the common good.
HONESTY, RESPONSIBILITY AND TOLERANCE:
South Florida School of Excellence will convey to students the need for honesty, integrity, individual responsibility and tolerance.
SOCIAL GOALS:
Promote a prevailing atmosphere of compassion, truth and justice within the home/school environment, which allows children to learn and grow in a safe, nurturing environment.
Assist parents in realizing their responsibility as primary role models for their children.
Heighten parent and faculty awareness of the tremendous pressures that children our modern society.
South Florida School Of Excellence Will Accomplish These Goals Through:
School leaders and staff committed to principles and practices related to positive social and academic learning opportunities for students;
Exposure to future Innovation
Recreational games /Community Based Learning (CBL) to engage students in learning through play;
Challenging hands on activities/ Project Based Learning (PBL) for students to explore real world issues and problems and become critical thinkers
Promoting student independence, confidence and increase of academic skills by all students’ required needs and therapies;
Providing organized and creative art activities, physical activities and technology activities developed and facilitated by special education professionals.