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| School Information |
12 Freeland Street
Worcester, MA 01603
Principal: June Eressy
Phone: 508-799-3591
Fax: 508-799-8151
Quadrant: South
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| Mission Statement |
University Park Campus School is a unique learning community,
promising to accept students of all abilities from the neighborhood
and prepare them for college. Every single student pursues a
rigorous academic program consisting of all honors classes.
At the same time, instruction is individualized to connect to
each student’s particular level of development. There is no
tracking. Instead, there are small classes, personal
relationship-building with a caring competent faculty, longer
days, 90-minute learning blocks, summer school, and morning and
evening homework sessions. Making connections is key, connecting
prior knowledge to new in-depth learning, connecting instruction
to assessment, connecting process to content, connecting classroom
to personal meaning, and connecting to one another affectively as
well as cognitively. Students learn that diligence and commitment
pay off. They also learn the power of moving toward independent learning.
University Park Campus School is an oasis of hope and opportunity
within a rough, inner-city neighborhood. It is home to a diverse
group of economically challenged children motivated by the promise
of success in a college preparatory program and free tuition at Clark
University. Students study in a building that is small, nurturing,
intimate, and comfortable, but one that is inextricably connected
to Clark University, a world-class university, having an intellectually
rich and stimulating campus. Our students think of themselves as young
Clark students as they compete on the University athletic complex,
study at the University library, and attend selected University events.
University professors teach and university students learn to teach
in our building, teaming with UPCS faculty. Our students enroll in
college courses as juniors and seniors.
The goal at UPCS is to produce students who become confident
in their ability to tackle new learning situations, who grow
in an appreciation of community, who come to understand that
desire beats adversity, and who learn to realize that people
working together with a common cause can indeed make promises
come true.
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20 Irving Street, Worcester, MA 01609-2493
Designed and modified by Mohammed Siddiqui
This page was last modified on 10/12/2007
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