Welcome to the Southwest Center for Accelerated Schools
ELITE

Enriched Learning Investing in Teacher Excellence

Accelerated Schools are students, parents, teachers, staff, administrators and other school community members who are striving to develop the best school for every child. The overall goal of Accelerated Schools is to create the school we want for our own children. If a school is not good enough for our own children, it is not good enough for any child.

No single feature makes a school accelerated. Rather each school community uses the Accelerated Schools’ philosophy and process to determine its own vision, understand its challenges and collaboratively works to achieve its goals.

Instead of viewing children as at-risk, we believe they are caught in a mismatch in which the experiences they bring from their homes, families, and communities are different from those on which traditional schools are based. Children caught in this mismatch are often put into remedial tracks with low expectations where they fall further and further behind. Instead of slowing down the progress of “low achieving” students, Accelerated Schools work to create Powerful Learning situations that motivate all students to grow and succeed. The best of what we know about education, which is often reserved for gifted and talented students, is given to all students.

To learn more about the Accelerated Schools Process explore our site through the links to the left of this page and contact us.