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Phone: (786) 502 3901 ext. 300 Text: (754) 204 3738 | Registration (754) 707 9948 | Office (786) 502 3901

780 Fisherman Street, 2nd & 3rd Floor
Opa-locka, Fl 33054

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Mission and Vision Statement

South Florida School of Excellence and Autism School of Excellence are committed to achieve the highest standards of intellectual and personal development through a stimulating and comprehensive program. We are dedicated to developing students to be resilient, adaptable and knowledgeable to continue their education and become interdependent, and socially responsible adults. The ethnic community, parents, administrators, students and staff work together to create an academic, physical, emotional, and safe environment for everyone to become lifelong learners.

Vision Statement

Our vision is that students leave school with:

Moral Values
INTEGRITY - PERSEVERANCE - DETERMINATION

We will be the first place in the development and implementation of effective service programs and advocacy for people with disabilities and non-disabilities throughout the State of Florida. We will develop individual independence for post-secondary, workforce development, employment, housing and community enrichment. We value the partnership which exists between school, parents and community and the part it plays in realizing this vision.

South Florida School of Excellence Moral Values
INTEGRITY - PERSEVERANCE - DETERMINATION - INNOVATION

Autism School of Excellence Moral Values
ACCEPT - UNDERSTAND - LOVE - SUPPORT - EDUCATE - ADVOCATE

Goals

Promote a prevailing atmosphere of compassion, truth and justice within the home/school settings, which allows children to learn and grow in a safe and nurturing environment.
Assist parents in realizing their responsibility as the primary role models for their children.
Heighten parent and faculty awareness of the tremendous pressures that children face in a modern society.

Enhance the academic programs to ensure continued academic success by offering:

Communications

Each student shall become proficient in reading, composition, listening, speech, understanding, interpreting, analyzing and synthesizing information

Mathematics

Each student shall become proficient in the use of varied mathematical processes and applications to solve challenging problems and to create new ways of understanding information.

Science and Technology

Each student shall become proficient in applying the processes of analysis, synthesis and evaluation to the solution of challenging scientific problems and in the application and understanding of technology in society.

Environment and Ecology

Each student shall understand the environment and the student’s ecological relationship with it in order to recognize the importance of the quality of life in a healthy and balanced environment.

Citizenship

Each student shall understand local, State and United States history, geography, systems of government and economics and their relationship to the history, geography, systems of government and economics of other countries in the world and shall acquire and have opportunities to practice, in the school and in the community, the skills necessary for active participation in civic life.

Arts and Humanities

Each student shall understand and appreciate the breadth of human accomplishment through the arts and humanities and shall have opportunities to practice creativity of thought and action and to demonstrate talent in the arts.

Career Education and Work

Each student shall explore varied career options and develop the skills and work habits needed to be a productive, contribution member of society and the understanding that life-long learning is necessary to maintain those behaviors, skills and attitudes.

Wellness and Fitness

Each student shall acquire and use the knowledge and skills necessary to promote individual family health and wellness.

Home Economics

Each student shall understand and apply principles of money management, consumer behavior and child health to provide for personal and family needs.

South Florida School of Excellence (SFSE) and Autism School of Excellence (ASE) are also committed to providing instruction through the curriculum in the following goals, which will not be used as a basis for state assessment:

Self-Worth

South Florida School of Excellence will help students develop capabilities, talents, self-understanding and a feeling of self-worth and acknowledge students for effort and achievement.

Information and Thinking Skills

South Florida School of Excellence will help students develop the skills necessary to locate and manage information, solve problems and make decisions, including the processes of analysis, synthesis, creativity and evaluation.

Learning Independently and Collaboratively

South Florida School of Excellence will encourage students to become independent life-long learners and to collaborate with others in developing knowledge, skills and new ideas.

Adaptability to Change

South Florida School of Excellence will prepare students to grow and develop in a world in which change is normal and constant.

Ethical Judgment

South Florida School of Excellence will teach students the importance of making ethical judgments for the common good.

Honesty, Responsibility and Tolerance:

South Florida School Of Excellence (ASE) and Autism School of Excellence (ASE) convey to students the need for honesty, integrity, individual responsibility and tolerance.

Social Goals

Promote a prevailing atmosphere of compassion, truth and justice within the home/school environment, which allows children to learn and grow in a safe, nurturing environment.
Assist parents in realizing their responsibility as primary role models for their children.
Heighten parent and faculty awareness of the tremendous pressures that children our modern society.

South Florida School Of Excellence (SFSE) and Autism School of Excellence (ASE) Will Accomplish These Goals Through:

School leaders and staff committed to principles and practices related to positive social and academic learning opportunities for students;
Exposure to future Innovation
Recreational games /Community Based Learning (CBL) to engage students in learning through play;
Challenging hands on activities/ Project Based Learning (PBL) for students to explore real world issues and problems and become critical thinkers
Promoting student independence, confidence and increase of academic skills by all students’ required needs and therapies;
Providing organized and creative art activities, physical activities and technology activities developed and facilitated by special education professionals.

We Believe In OUR STUDENTS

South Florida School Of Excellence and Autism School of Excellence believes that all students are unique and have special talents and abilities. Our staff, teachers, parents and students all share responsibility in the educational process. School is dedicated to a progressive, sequential curriculum that develops critical thinking skills, problem solving abilities, and life-long learning in a safe and nurturing environment. School’s strong emphasis on character education and modeling instills positive values for students to reach their potential by providing them with a variety of opportunities to learn and succeed.

We believe learning is enhanced through utilization of the latest technology and resources.
We believe community involvement and service benefits both the student and the community.
We believe a diverse student body teaches and models the necessity of human interdependence and one’s role in a global society.
We believe the future of a democratic society lies in the development of the hearts and minds of its youth.

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South Florida School of Excellence and Autism School of Excellence is committed to achieve the highest standards of intellectual and personal development through a stimulating and comprehensive program. We are dedicated to developing students to be resilient, adaptable and knowledgeable to continue their education and become interdependent, and socially responsible adults. The ethnic community, parents, administrators, students and staff work together to create an academic, physical, emotional, and safe environment for everyone to become lifelong learners.