CCA - Foundational Pillars

The foundational pillars comprise the operating belief structure of Cesar Chavez School Network schools. These pillars represent the core actions and beliefs governing our actions everyday and are described as follows:

Pillars of What We do Everyday:

Create opportunities by:

• Advocating for students
• Providing new learning experiences
• Fostering new ideas

Do not allow failure to be an option by:

• Ensuring there are No excuses and No surprises
• Removing barriers to student learning
• Promoting content mastery
• Providing strategies for success in the post-secondary environment

Maintain healthy intrusiveness by:

• Not allowing anyone to be invisible
• Engaging all students with strategies in place
• Focusing on relationships with students, parents, and colleagues
• Supporting a collaborative learning construct by emphasizing teamwork

Create our own destiny by:

• Adhering to the belief that we are responsible for our own destiny
• Providing students with choices
• Instilling the expectation that students take ownership and responsibility for their choices
• Following the principle of restorative justice versus a punitive system of discipline; restorative justice which places a focus on what needs to be learned in the wake of a wrong action.