Commitment to Excellence
Student success at KIPP schools requires a partnership between parents, students, and teachers that puts learning first. In order to join the KIPP team and family, all three parties are required to sign the “Commitment to Excellence,” which ensures that each will do whatever it takes to make achievement possible.
Download KIPP Bridge Charter School’s complete Commitment to Excellence.
Academics
KIPP Bridge Charter School combines California’s rigorous content standards with the pedagogical methodologies that have proven successful in established KIPP schools. The state standards are supplemented with geography, character education, study skills, extra-curricular activities, technology, and community service. Clear and specific standards-based academic objectives are mastered at each grade level as students move through the curriculum at KIPP Bridge Charter School’s intensified pace.
Teachers will work with the school leader to supplement this curriculum with their own innovations, research, and expertise. Particular detail is paid to mathematics and English-language arts, the building blocks of the KIPP Bridge Charter School academic program.
Character
KIPP Bridge Charter School believes that for its students to become successful, contributing members of society they must also achieve non-academic goals. During their tenure at KIPP Bridge Charter School, all students will:
- develop specific social skills necessary to exist positively in society
- learn to approach their required work with attitudes and skills necessary to be successful in life
- develop academic skills necessary to be successful in subsequent schools
- develop the character traits and skills that will allow and encourage them to become concerned and active citizens of their communities, nation, and world beyond
