The Charlotte Lab School is designed to meet the needs of 21st century students and is built upon the following core values:
Authentic learning: Students learn best through meaningful, hands-on learning experiences that resemble the “real world”;
Individualization and Personalization: Students learn better when they are known by their teachers and when their school meets them where they are, enabling them to learn in different ways and at different paces;
Global Awareness and Bilingualism: Students must learn skills that will enable them to communicate and collaborate with diverse groups of people;
Metacognitive Skill Development: Students need to understand themselves as learners in order to adapt in today’s rapidly changing world; and
Innovation: Students’ needs must drive school improvement. Our approach utilizes a small, nurturing environment, where students will have the opportunity to participate in:
Solving real-world problems, alongside experts, through Challenge Based Learning;
Getting to know each other and themselves through our Advisory Program;
Using the City and greenspaces as their expanded classroom through our Community Partnerships;
Learning a second language – Mandarin or Spanish; and
Exploring their interests and learning new skills through our Enrichment Programs.
