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The CVS Highlander Charter School seeks to generate and sustain the fundamental redesign of schooling in Rhode Island. Highlander offers students highly personalized and rigorous academics in a real-world context and empowers students to pursue their talents and passions by developing and implementing multi-disciplinary projects. The school brings the community into the classroom and uses the community as a classroom.

Description:
Major Program Components

• Family Engagement Program: Highlander boasts 100% parent involvement, which includes special events, open houses, committee work, chaperoning and classroom opportunities. Every student receives home visits in September. There are also three parent conferences each year.
  
  
• Personalized Learning Plan: Students' passions, talents and strengths are recorded at the start of each semester, and goals around specific academic content are articulated by the learning team.
  
  
• Broad Volunteer Work: Over 70 volunteers comprised of parents and community members infuse all aspects of Highlander.
  
  
• Project-based Learning Focus: Relevance, relationships and rigor are the fundamental building blocks of project work, which is student-generated.



History:
CVS Highlander Charter School opened in the fall of 2000 with approximately 75 students in grades K-5. Currently, we have been able to grow to accommodate 179 students in grades K-8.

The name of the school is after the Highlander Folk School, founded in 1932, today called the Highlander Research & Education Center located just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. Highlander is a private, non-profit education center which carries out a unique program of assisting community members who seek solutions to pressing social problems. Highlander's history demonstrates that social concerns are best addressed when solutions come from the people who are experiencing the problem. They have a rich history of training labor and civil rights organizers, including Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and others in an experiential based, hand-on model.



Contact person: Jane Picciotti, Project Manager, (401) 277-2600, (email)
Office fax number: 401-277-2603

Address:


45 Greeley Street Providence, RI 02904 (See a map)


Web Site: http://www.highlandercharter.org

Directions:

95 to Branch Avenue Exit. Branch Avenue to Charles Street. Go North on Charles. Take left onto Greeley and bear right. The school is at 45 Greeley Street on the right.

Miscellaneous Information

Handicap accessible?
	Yes
Interests Served:
	Solutions for Children, Youth, Families
Does your agency accept court-appointed volunteers?
	No

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