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The Skylight School for Justice offers these unique benefits to students and parents:

• Designed to embrace diversity and teach the values of Identity, Justice,Diversity and Action.

• Training students to be advocates for social justice, environmental justice, and sustainability.

• Small school atmosphere – two classrooms of each grade with a maximum of 22 students a classroom.

• Everyday Spanish and Science.

• Environmental and Sustainability education integrated K-8.

• Reading for fun and curiosity represented in all classrooms.

• Art, Dance, and Health for all.

• Discipline that serves to heal, not punish or bribe.

• Service projects and activities such as gardening woven into the curriculum.

"When did relentlessly raising standards become more important than building great communities, developing a love of learning, creating educational niches and landscapes in which everyone thrives?"

--- Dr. Rachel Lofthouse

A fresh start for learning:

The educational philosophy of the Skylight School for Justice will center on social justice, harnessing the Social Justice Standards: The Learning for Justice Anti-bias Framework. The standards provide a common language and organizational structure. Teachers will use them to guide curriculum development, and administrators will use them to make schools more just, equitable and safe.

Due to their rapidly evolving intellectual and moral development young adolescent learners crave and benefit from opportunities to examine complex issues with real-world implications. These two characteristics suggest the importance of purposeful real-world learning: curriculum is challenging, exploratory, integrative, and relevant, and students and teachers are engaged in active, purposeful learning. Social justice education presents an opportunity to meaningfully address both characteristics.

We Know:

English learners, students who are economically disadvantaged, and students of color routinely receive less instruction in higher order skills development than other students. Their curriculum is less challenging and more repetitive. Their instruction is more focused on skills low on Bloom’s taxonomy. This type of instruction denies students the opportunity to engage in what neuroscientists call productive struggle that actually grows brainpower. An awareness of students' use of their own experiences and a consistent promotion of critical literacy skills throughout a child's, adolescent's, and adult's life strengthens awareness of the social, political, economic, and cultural implications of education.