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 Heartwood Academy’s complete Commitment to Excellence.
Academics
KIPP Heartwood Academy 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 Heartwood Academy’s intensified pace.
Teachers work with the school leader to supplement this curriculum with their own innovations, research, and expertise. Incoming student needs and performance levels determine the weight that teachers place on different elements of the curriculum. The school’s expectation is to accelerate student learning to ensure that mastery of the state standards is achieved at a faster pace necessary to prepare students for the rigorous and challenging curriculum they will encounter in high school Honors and Advanced Placement programs.
Character
KIPP Heartwood Academy believes that for its students to become successful, contributing members of society they must also achieve non-academic goals. During their tenure at KIPP Heartwood Academy, all students will:
- demonstrate strong study skills
- demonstrate a strong work ethic
- demonstrate teamwork
- demonstrate community awareness and involvement
- develop strong social skills
