Our Mission, Vision and Charter Petition

We believe that public schools can be fun, academically challenging, socially enriching, and embrace the diverse lived experiences of everyone in the community. City Language Immersion Charter (CLIC) prepares students with the social-emotional skills, cultural competence, and academic achievement to navigate the challenges, opportunities, and relationships they will encounter beyond our walls. We hold all students to high expectations, while providing them with a supportive community and immersive project-based learning experience that spark their curiosity and deeper thinking about meaningful real-world problems.

Mission

CLIC graduates are self-aware, reflective individuals who can draw on social-emotional competencies, cultural competency, and critical thinking ability to thrive personally, and positively impact their communities. In order to fulfill our mission, we:

Provide a constructivist, project-based learning environment in which teachers guide students through active learning processes to develop conceptual understanding and critical thinking.

Establish a culture that puts relationships and social-emotional support first so that every student is known and gets the support they need to succeed.

Prioritize the development of cultural competency at all levels of the organization, investing in anti-bias training for staff, and multicultural curriculum for students.

Give faculty time, resources, autonomy and a collaborative atmosphere to continually develop their skills and create, evaluate and refine curricula, and reflect on the learning of their students.

Communicate regularly with students’ families, creating multiple opportunities for family involvement in the life of the school, to ensure a diverse and inclusive learning community.

Values

Educational Excellence: Instruction reflects high expectations, inspires curiosity, builds critical skills and promotes deeper thinking to drive achievement and close opportunity gaps.

Diversity: We build intentionally diverse, welcoming, and equitable learning communities where students and staff develop self-awareness and cultural competence to build a better world.

Community: The school is intentionally inclusive: we put relationships first and develop social-emotional competencies while engaging all stakeholders in creating a unified, safe, and supportive community within and beyond the school.