WE BELIEVE....
All students can learn through:
- Highly structured classrooms
- Flexible grouping
- Emphasis of basic skills through
a mastery learning approach
- An orderly organizated learning approach
- Careful diagnosis and appropriate skill level and organizational
strengths
- A team approach between home and school
- Ongoing and open communication
- Opportunity for success for each student
- A sense
of belonging and pride in our school
- Development of "other respect" as well as "self respect"
- Personal caring about each child
- Consistent
discipline that is "firm" but "kind"
- Training in responsible citizenship
What makes Hillcrest different?
- Small class size with approximately 10:1 or fewer teacher to student ratio
- Individual attention
- Hands on learning
- Organizational
skills taught in every class
- Caring teachers who are certified and trained to work with students who learn differently
- Reduced and/or
modified homework load
- Positive reinforcement
- Counseling for post secondary education for junior and senior students
- Outdoor camping
experience for all students which builds community within the student body
- After-school activities including booster clubs, dances,
and sports
- Advanced technology including SmartBoard, AlphaSmart laptops, computers with internet capability in each classroom and
a fully equipped computer lab
- Alphabetic phonics for students with dyslexia and core academic classes