Keeping Our Eye on the Prize

As Advance Baton Rouge prepares for the possibility that BESE will award ABR the charters for Prescott and Glen Oaks Middle Schools and Pointe Coupee Central High School this Thursday, our organization wants to keep things in perspective.

The parents and the students will be our customers. We have to remember that always. We can't do this without parents and students. We need to know what works, what doesn't and what you think success looks like. If ABR doesn't know what your ideas are about what a successful school does, how can we redesign a school to meet your needs?

With that in mind, ABR has a vision statement that reminds us of these issues and keeps our goals in focus.

“Our goal is to change schools so we can change kids’ lives. If you provide children a strong and challenging education, they will have more options. And when you expose kids to different ways to think, imagine and learn, they dream bigger and strive to be more. That means a better job and a better life. When that happens, we all benefit. It improves our workforce, our economy and our society, regardless of what specific fields kids ultimately decide to enter. ABR’s promise to the parents of the Prescott and Glen Oaks Middle schools and Pointe Coupee Central High School is that, if we are awarded these charters, we will provide your children with an education that will give them more options and opportunities this Fall than they have today. And ABR hopes parents will hold our organization to that.”

We will post this vision statement on the blog from time to time to encourage communication and partnership between ABR, parents and students.