Bright Key Highlands

Welcome to the Bright Key Highlands page! We will use this page to stay in touch with you and announce our parent/community meetings.

What is Bright Key? Several years ago,, the Wiregrass Foundation and Dothan City Schools began researching a concept known as “Community Schools” as a way to engage the community more within the public school system. The concept turns public schools into energized centers for services that are focused on the student, school, family and community. The program has been personalized for Dothan City S

chools, and the concept is known as Bright Key – a community collaboration unlocking every child’s potential. Bright Key is uniquely designed to be a stakeholder community school program. A stakeholder community school program gives teachers, parents and community partners a proven way to make their school better. Teachers, parents and community partners are called “stakeholders” because they have a “stake” in the future of the school’s programs. Stakeholders work with each school’s Bright Key Resource Coordinator to choose programs for their school. For example, one school may need an art program while a different school may need a foreign language program. It all depends on what the stakeholders believe will make their unique school improve in areas of attendance, behavior and academic achievement. Once programs are identified and voted on by stakeholders, they work with their Bright Key Resource Coordinator to find community partners to provide the programs and services to meet their identified needs. Each Bright Key school has its own set of programs voted on by stakeholders - unique schools, unique students, unique stakeholders, unique Bright Key programs. Bright Key is a genuine partnership between the stakeholders and Dothan City Schools. All services and programs are determined entirely by the stakeholders involved with the school. They determine what they want Bright Key to be in their school. Their involvement is the “key” to Bright Key. Without their interest, decision-making and volunteering, Bright Key will not work. But with it, Bright Key can help schools achieve success like never before! Ideas are only limited by the needs of the children and our willingness to meet those needs. Dothan City Schools historically has sought the best programs and services to meet the comprehensive needs of each individual student. Bright Key takes this one step further by engaging stakeholders and community support to achieve meaningful and lasting benefits for Dothan students.

04/22/2024

It's National Public Schools Volunteer Week! We couldn't do this work without the hundreds of community volunteers that serve in Bright Key(R) programs in Dothan City Schools. THANK YOU!

Photos from Highlands Elementary School Dothan's post

12/15/2023

Yesss!!! So much to celebrate!!! So proud of our Highlands family!

12/14/2023

There’s so much to celebrate this time of year! Let’s celebrate all of the growth that has happened in our little Academic Dream Room over the last 4 months! Let’s celebrate the relationships that are being built and the confidence that is growing daily. Let’s celebrate a school that embraces our Bright Key program and supports it fully! Let’s celebrate the faculty, staff, administrators, students and volunteers that bring our program life! We are entering this holiday season with a big, happy and thankful heart! ❤️🎄

12/12/2023

Our Kindergarten class presented SARCOA with sleigh full of gifts for their Santa for Seniors Program today! Students used the money raised for their Lemonade Stand to fund these gifts and were SO excited to see this project come full circle and spread a little joy this morning! We are so proud of their hard work and all they have learned about citizenship through this service learning project.

12/08/2023

Our last Sign Language Club of 2023 was a fun one! Thank you to Mrs. Cheryl Willis for coming to spend time with us this semester. Our students have learned so much from you! We wish you a Merry Christmas! 🎄🎶👐

11/13/2023

If you're looking for a way to spread a little holiday joy, our Bright Key Wishlist has been updated with real and immediate needs that we have in the Academic Dream Room. Thanks for thinking of us and the students we serve!

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11/03/2023

Thank you to Deb Hodgett from for sharing with our Kindergarteners about and the Joy for All Companion Pets for our aging population this morning. We all enjoyed learning the many ways we can invest the proceeds from our Lemonade Stand back into our community.

10/27/2023

Everyday is good day to learn a little more about our local heroes that keep us safe! Thank you to and for spending the morning with us and for all that you do for our community! 🚒🚔❤️💙

10/24/2023

Hard at work in the Academic Dream Room today!

10/24/2023

We are still celebrating the success of our Lemonade Stand this past Friday! We wanted to extend our deepest and most heartfelt appreciation to our supporters. We could not have pulled this together without these local businesses, organizations and families. Thank you ALL for coming together to support our students, Bright Key and this service learning opportunity! 🍋💛👏🏼

10/21/2023

The Kindergarten Lemonade Stand is a full circle service learning project for our Kindergarten class. They get an opportunity to put good citizenship in action by working and giving back to the community they live in. This project would not be possible without the help of our parents, teachers and community partners. Thank you!! 🍋🍋🍋 (Album 2 of 2)

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Location

Dothan

Telephone

+13347941459

Website

http://brightkeywiregrass.org/

Address

1400 S Brannon Stand Road
Dothan, AL
36305

Bright Key Highlands

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