Our Mission
The Highlands School educates students with learning differences and achievement gaps. We instill hope and confidence in our students by fostering a positive and nurturing environment. We focus on teaching our students methods to help them realize their strengths, overcome frustrations, and achieve academic and social success.
Our Core Values
1. Excellence
- Our organization strives to deliver excellence in all areas knowing that true excellence comes from a growth mindset, adaptation, and innovation.
- We provide the training and mentorship necessary to ensure our faculty, staff, and board members are equipped to lead the school now and into the future.
- We use research-based and data-driven curriculum to provide the very best individualized instruction.
2. Integrity
- We encourage respect, fairness, trust, and truth from The Highlands’ community.
- We instill honesty and respect in all our students.
- We maintain an open-door policy that invites discussion and challenge.
3. Perseverance
- We have a passionate and dedicated faculty, staff, and board of directors.
- We foster an environment that rewards diligent and hard work over quick and easy solutions.
- We engender persistence and effort in our students as they travel on their educational journey.
4. Self-Awareness
- We believe that our students are the heart of our school.
- We provide faculty, staff, and students a safe place to discover and become more self-aware of their strengths and weaknesses.
- We equip students with the tools necessary to become self-advocates and grow in self-confidence.
5. Relationships
- We partner with parents/guardians knowing that they are the primary educators of their children.
- We value community and strive to be a school where people are seen, known, and feel included.
- We build relationships with community leaders, businesses, and other non-profits understanding that we cannot fulfill our mission without their support.
6. Hope
- Through our unique educational approach, we instill hope in our students and parents for learning now and in the future.
- Giving our students the tools they need to learn equips them to thrive in the face of adversity.
- We provide a place of hope, mentoring students academically and socially so that they become productive members of the community as adults.