MCA - Goals and Distinctives

Mission Statement

Millennium Charter Academy is an independent, public school whose classroom is the community, which invites parents, teachers, students, and the community to collectively challenge each child to achieve superior academic standards and to develop the highest moral character. We will expand educational choice with an innovative, student-centered environment producing life-long learners equipped with the knowledge and critical-thinking skills necessary to become leaders in the 21st Century.

Focus of the School

Millennium Charter Academy will create a climate of high expectations for success by establishing an authentic partnership based on trust and communication between teachers and parents that allows for the implementation of strategies that assure all students learn, and that the academy as an entire organization reflects these high expectations. This will be accomplished by balancing higher level learning with the basic skills that are prerequisite to its mastery.

Goals

Scholarship
      1) To inspire students so that they leave MCA loving to learn.
      2) To foster the values and benefits of reading.
      3) To teach children to think analytically in the upper level thinking skills, such as
           generalizing, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating.
      4) To teach children to act and think independently and to make sound
           evaluations of situations, information, and ideas.
      5) To follow a child's progress through teacher observation, communicating well with parents.
      6) To deliver well the entire NC Standard Course of Study and Core Knowledge curriculum to
           every child.
      7) To maximize instructional time during the school day.
      8) Utilize small group instruction.

Character
      9) To develop within each student a solid moral character.
    10) To respect the child, to discipline wisely, and to teach the child how to live under authority.
    11) To develop leaders.

Community
     12) To utilize the community as an eduational resource.
     13) To assist and uphold parents in their responsibility to educate their children.
     14) To encourge and provide opportunities for parents and other people in the community to
           share their unique gifts and talents with Millennium Charter Academy.
     15) To foster appreciation for our country.