ABOUT US
Do you want your student to attend a safe, family oriented school where students are engaged in real world problems, learn and practice leadership, are known by name, work in teams, and have access to a wide variety of classes and activities? Welcome home to Coastal Leadership Academy, a tuition-free public charter high school.
Located in the heart of Myrtle Beach near the Market Common, Coastal Leadership Academy is open to all students in Horry and Georgetown Counties. Our project based, personalized learning high school offers more than 24 hours of college credit opportunities and has a record of academic success for students challenged by large school environments.
Located in the heart of Myrtle Beach near the Market Common, Coastal Leadership Academy is open to all students in Horry and Georgetown Counties. Our project based, personalized learning high school offers more than 24 hours of college credit opportunities and has a record of academic success for students challenged by large school environments.
OUR MISSION
Coastal Leadership Academy's mission is to engage students in Project Based Learning that will improve academic achievement, critical and creative thinking, and awareness of their leadership roles in our community and environment.
OUR PURPOSE
Our purpose is to educate and empower students through:
- Love, support, and appreciation for their unique qualities, interests, and talents.
- A nurturing pedagogy that instills courage, compassion, and personal responsibility and integrity.
- Providing opportunities to gain knowledge and skills to be strong and committed critical and creative thinkers and collaborators that lead to fostering a peaceful, and sustainable world.
OUR PROMISE
Our promise is to ensure that young people have a purposeful educational experience that cultivates and honors all their capacities as people by:
- Developing excellent thinking tools (creative, critical, scientific, analytic, design, mathematical, logical, systems, and solutionary thinking).
- Fostering sound emotional health and effective communication skills (empathy, kindness, self-awareness, motivation for good, honesty, active listening, oratory, and writing).
- Offering time and space for demonstrating community-mindedness, and to pursue personally relevant learning experiences and entrepreneurial endeavors.
OUR VISION
To become a new model for “public school” by actually being part of the actual public, and demonstrating the positive impact that a small, purposeful and respectful personalized environment can have on meeting the needs and empowering a diverse population of young citizens through cooperative and collaborative teaching and learning.
OUR VALUES
The following core values are cultivated daily among all members of the learning community:
Empathy
The ability to understand, appreciate, and relate to others and their experiences.
Responsibility
The understanding that everything we do and don't do has an impact, as such, we strive to make choices that do the most good and least harm to ourselves and others, including other species and the environment.
Kindness
The act of doing good, helping, and putting compassion into practice in both our interpersonal relationships and through choices that affect others with whom we are connected personally and globally.
Perseverance
The effort to pursue goals even in the face of obstacles and setbacks.
Self-Awareness
The ability to observe and understand ourselves, our impact on others, and our capacities, talents, passions, struggles and ultimately self-worth. Engagement in introspection and reflection.
Positive Communication and Active Listening
The commitment to speak one’s truth with respectful conviction, pay attention to others, seek out and welcome divergent voices, understand the power of language, and consider differing perspectives.
Wonder and Curiosity
The realization of the importance of these three essential questions as part of daily life: Why? What if? How?
Creativity
The practice of innovation, making things, designing, improvising, putting ideas together that didn’t exist before, developing new thoughts and perspectives that matter.
Collaboration
The effort to learn from and with one another and work together toward common goals.
Honesty
The quality of being truthful, straightforward, and sincere.
Integrity
The commitment to live according to these and other personally meaningful values to the best of our ability and live them consistently (even when no one is looking).
Empathy
The ability to understand, appreciate, and relate to others and their experiences.
Responsibility
The understanding that everything we do and don't do has an impact, as such, we strive to make choices that do the most good and least harm to ourselves and others, including other species and the environment.
Kindness
The act of doing good, helping, and putting compassion into practice in both our interpersonal relationships and through choices that affect others with whom we are connected personally and globally.
Perseverance
The effort to pursue goals even in the face of obstacles and setbacks.
Self-Awareness
The ability to observe and understand ourselves, our impact on others, and our capacities, talents, passions, struggles and ultimately self-worth. Engagement in introspection and reflection.
Positive Communication and Active Listening
The commitment to speak one’s truth with respectful conviction, pay attention to others, seek out and welcome divergent voices, understand the power of language, and consider differing perspectives.
Wonder and Curiosity
The realization of the importance of these three essential questions as part of daily life: Why? What if? How?
Creativity
The practice of innovation, making things, designing, improvising, putting ideas together that didn’t exist before, developing new thoughts and perspectives that matter.
Collaboration
The effort to learn from and with one another and work together toward common goals.
Honesty
The quality of being truthful, straightforward, and sincere.
Integrity
The commitment to live according to these and other personally meaningful values to the best of our ability and live them consistently (even when no one is looking).
