Escuela Tlatelolco

Goals & Objectives
Educational Standards
Evaluation & Assessment

The overall goal is to create a bilingual community of learning where close, trusting relationships with adults, peers and families create a climate for personal growth and intellectual development.

Specific objectives for attaining this goal include:

Improve Escuela Tlatelolco learning utilizing smaller learning environments called "families" with no more than a 18:1 Escuela Tlatelolco/teacher ratio
Increase Students' critical thinking abilities through mastery of an appropriate body of knowledge
Enlist parents as integral allies to the educational development of their children;
Expect every Escuela Tlatelolco to complete the school successfully
Increase Students' self-esteem and sense of efficacy
Increase academic achievement by creating an alternative with high standards for performance
Provide Students with community service project and work experience opportunities
Improve literacy in English, a second language, and computers.

Specific outcome objectives for attaining this goal include:

A 92% attendance and participation rate by Students, and a 100% retention rate.
A projected 90% graduation rate, with Students obtaining required academic credits and demonstrating competencies in cornerstone academic proficiencies.
Parent involvement (through attendance at parent/teacher conferences, completing required 10 volunteer hours/month)
A projected 70% parent participation in workshops and parent-teacher conferences.
An estimated 90% of Students reducing their delinquency behaviors.
Improved Escuela Tlatelolco achievement/assessments for 70% of Students, including the CSAP assessment.

Strategies

For more than 30 years, Escuela Tlatelolco has helped Students from low-income and disadvantaged backgrounds succeed in school and in life. Elements in this formula for success include a hands-on, experiential curriculum; dual language instruction; connection to community programs; extended day activities; and required parent involvement. These principles are incorporated into the Escuela model.

Performance Standards: Management and staff set high, rigorous standards to assess academic, school and community performance. Escuela's thematic and interdisciplinary curriculum meets state and national content standards. Students complete school portfolios and designated nationally assessments to measure academic progress. The curriculum for La Escuela, cutting across all grades, is built upon the following educational cornerstone or standards:

Escuela Tlatelolco will demonstrate the ability to utilize critical and creative thinking:

To provide for communal identification and definition of problems; and,
To generate a variety of solutions based upon trust and respect and grounded ethically.

Escuela Tlatelolco will use oral and written expression in at least two languages; artistic expression in a variety of media; and, mathematical expression both numerical and conceptual in order to demonstrate:

Knowledge of the use and allocation of power from the personal to the institutional level; and,
Ability to recognize, query, and analyze environment from the most immediate to the most remote.

Escuela Tlatelolco will demonstrate the ability to develop and communicate a culturally respectful, socially just and politically progressive vision:

That incorporates a personal philosophy of law, politics and justice that assists in actively improving her/his personal, family and community health and well being.

Escuela Tlatelolco will demonstrate the ability to lead a life of spiritual growth and discovery and healthy decision-making:

To provide the framework for holistic development of the individual within the context of his/her environment.