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  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Our Team >
      • Teacher Contacts
      • Teacher Features >
        • Miranda Bostick
        • James Brown
        • Joe Greenberg
        • Maddie Kauffman
        • Xiaohong Lin
        • Debra Mexas
        • Sherri Oskin
        • Esteban Pope
        • Ashley Salsberry
        • Nick Smaldone
        • Angel Thompson
        • LaTonya Vereen
        • Chuck Walker
        • Dave Weber
    • Our Board
  • Students
    • Request Transcript
    • Why Choose CLA?
    • Apply to CLA
    • CLA Athletics
    • CLA Clubs
    • Department of Exceptional Learners
    • Helpful Links
    • HGTC Pace Information
    • Important Documents
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      • Who is homeless?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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​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.​
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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.
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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.
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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).

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When coming to CLA, I was very scared and worried that no one would like me, but that is not the case at all anymore. I believe that CLA has helped me discover my true talent and that is what I am thankful for. I believe I could have not found a better fit than this.
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Sarah, CLA Student

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As a student I was first attracted to the small class size. I was interested in the individualized attention I would receive as a student. The staff and teachers were friendly and welcoming throughout the year not only for academics, but also on a personal level. By having a close school learning environment, the students, staff, and instructors became a family even through distance-learning. I am excited for the fall when we can all come together again.
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Cameron, CLA Student

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Even though I’m part of the amazing staff at CLA, my daughter attends as well. This school is the perfect fit for her because of the limited amount of students. She would go unnoticed at a big public school. Being at CLA gives her the opportunity to have a one on one connection with all of her teachers.
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Miranda Bostick, CLA Staff

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I was first attracted to CLA through its desire to push the status quo by paying closer attention to student needs than the voice behind the curtain dictating norms to follow. As a staff member, CLA is the right fit for me because of the freedom they offer each and every individual who walks through its doors while still providing thoughtful guidance to ensure a rich culture remains woven into our education.
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Dave Weber, CLA Staff

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PBL attracted my parents and myself to go to CLA. It has allowed me to work better with others in a team and learn leadership skills. All staff members and students are amazing. They are open to anyone, care for everyone and love you for who you are. I am visual learner. CLA and teachers have allowed me to learn better. They would use photos, videos, and artistic skills to allow me to learn and understand the content.
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Agustina, CLA Student

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The hands on real life approach to teaching. I'm glad that my student is able to see how what he learns can be applied to a job and real life. The size of the school makes it easier to get extra assistance. And the caring staff wants the students to succeed and you can tell they enjoy teaching. ​
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Heather Williams, CLA Parent

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​I really thought I was finished with my career in education, until I sat down with Joe Greenberg . After an hour long conversation I had a full time job and a new excitement for an opportunity like no other, doing it our way!
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James Brown, CLA Athletics Director

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The small teacher to student ratio was the first thing that attracted me to CLA. As a parent it was great to see them push my child to excel while making learning fun again. The music program was the first thing that attracted him and they have yet to disappoint. It is also great they answer any questions you may have and address all concerns. The teachers are caring and available unlike some other schools. The Principal is the best we have ever dealt with. ​
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Melissa Donaldson, CLA Parent

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Coastal Leadership Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, or immigrant status in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following persons have been designated to handle the nondiscrimination policies. For questions pertaining to Section 504 contact Annie Hickerson at ​ahickerson@coastalleadership.org​ and for Title IX contact Traci Bryant-Riches at 803/665-2011 or tbryantriches@coastalleadership.org.

For further information on notice of non-discrimination, visit http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/CFAPPS/OCR/contactus.cfm for the address and phone number of the office that serves your area, or call 1-800-421-3481.
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