THE CARROLL SCHOOL BELIEF STATEMENTS

Over the past two years, the faculty have worked to generate these statements to amplify our mission statement:

1. The Carroll School is designed specifically for children with language-based learning disabilities, such as dyslexia. This is our only mission.
   
2. Smart children with language learning disabilities become successful students given proper instruction within a positive environment.
   
3. The Carroll School produces students who are academically skilled, confident, happy, healthy in self-concept, and reflective about who they are as learners.
   
4. Carroll teaches children to read, comprehend, and write through a structured, sequential, multisensory, systematic, alphabetic-phonetic approach to instruction.
   
5. Carroll teaches children to act on the five habits of highly effective students: working collaboratively, asking questions, harnessing resources, using time wisely, and employing reliable memory strategies.
   
6. We believe teachers are life-long learners and have the power to change the lives of students. Teachers have a responsibility to surround children with energy and enthusiasm for learning.
   
7. Teachers at Carroll never quit on their children. They express belief in the ability of their students to succeed and promote the notion that students’ successes are the direct result of effective effort.