We believe that if you change your story you can change your life. Our intention for this website is to broadcast the new story of public education in urban America. The story that is usually told is not our story. This is a new story. It is one of belief, power, hopes and dreams.

 

Want to get involved? Spread our story. The minute you hear someone complain about public education and failure of the “urban poor” show them our story. Show them our children. See, we believe all children can learn. We believed it before others even dared to dream it. Some need to see in order to believe. We, the staff at Central, know the power of a dream. We see ourselves as keepers of the dream as we empower our children to become actively literate members of our democratic society where ALL children use reading, writing and mathematical literacy to participate. Our students will follow their dreams and make countless contributions. We start with small dreams like, “I want more ladybugs at my school.” We believe in our dreams. As we see them come true, we learn to wish again and we see how to create our vision one dream and one wish at a time.