MISSION

The Carroll School is dedicated to meeting the educational needs of children diagnosed with language-based learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, and to supporting the constituencies that serve them. Carroll seeks a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse population and is an active public champion for persons with learning disabilities.

To fulfill its mission, The Carroll School:

• offers an academic program designed to serve a population of students diagnosed as having a language-based learning disability, such as dyslexia, of average to superior intelligence, and with no primary emotional problems;
• provides diagnostic, intensive, and highly structured instruction in a fully enriched program;
• fosters self-confidence and a willingness to take responsibility for being active learners;
• prepares students to enter other academic settings and to advocate for themselves in a life of learning;
• reaches outside the student environment through research projects, professional associations, programs of parental support, and teacher training. Consistent with the lifelong nature of learning, Carroll and the Carroll Center for Innovative Education seeks enduring relationships with all of its constituencies.

ABOUT THE CARROLL SCHOOL

The history of The Carroll School dates back to 1967, when Dr. Edwin Cole and a small group of concerned individuals founded a special school for children with language-based learning differences. Today, Carroll is a thriving community where children come together in an environment that values their differences and remediates their learning difficulties. While Carroll's history is a short one, its tradition is rich and its mission firmly grounded.

STRATEGIC PLAN

During the Strategic Planning process Carroll’s educators, administrators, Board members, alumni, and parents participated in evaluating nine key objectives to improve Carroll’s educational programs. Collectively, our community made recommendations for campus improvements, endowment for faculty, financial support to make Carroll’s education more accessible to children who need our services, and to launch the Carroll Center to provide leadership, research and educational innovation to transform the lives of children with learning differences.

To read the Strategic Plan endorsed by Carroll's Board of Trustees in June 2007, please click here.