Mission Statement
Urban Dove Team Charter School (UD Team) is a completely unique and innovative alternative High School for over-aged, under-credited youth that will combine a rigorous academic curriculum with a hands-on, real-world vocational program, and an award-winning college readiness program that strives to give each graduate a high school diploma, a foundation for higher education, and the job skills needed to enter the world of work.
Energize. Urban Dove Team Charter School (UD Team) energizes at-risk students through a program consisting of sports, health and fitness that focuses on developing teamwork, healthy competition and self-confidence for academic and life success.
Educate. UD Team educates under-credited students through a 3-year project-based personalized instructional program that provides those students an opportunity to receive a high-school diploma, a foundation for higher education, and the job skills needed to enter the world of work.
Empower. UD Team empowers disconnected youth through individualized academic support, internships, and counseling, which collectively help mold them into active, healthy, informed world citizens.
Description
To attract, engage, energize and educate students, UD Team features an innovative sports, health, and fitness curriculum that supports the academic framework of the school. Rather than just being a student at a school, students are first a part of a team. Teams practice, play, go to class, receive support services, and move through the school environment--together! Each team has coaches who teach, mentor, guide, counsel and develop them as students, athletes and citizens. Supported by Urban Dove’s youth development model, which supports and empowers students, the sports element delivers a structured, disciplined environment that influences all aspects of the school. Sports Coaches promote communication, teamwork, and leadership to help improve students’ confidence and self-esteem, ability to focus, managing of emotions, and consideration of others--traits that help each and every student become a positive member of a community.
The school has an extended day/extended year schedule and does not follow the traditional model of school/after-school timeframes. Students complete all tasks while at school; over the course of a Monday - Saturday week, students receive academic classroom instruction, vocational training, individual and group counseling, personalized academic support, internships and both instructional and competitive sports play. The school also requires students to participate in a mandatory summer program that consists of academic instruction, summer job experiences and sports.
Students who graduate from UD Team will leave high school as healthy, active, focused young adults, ready to fulfill their potential. At UD Team, we strive to create young adults who are committed to both their futures and communities, and who possess positive connections that provide numerous opportunities beneficial to the achievement of their goals--whatever those may be. With the academic foundation and self-confidence to pursue higher education, and/or the technical and life-skills needed to succeed in the working world, UD Team serves as the solid and stable platform from which each UD Team student can take flight in life.
