Student Life

Leadership Prep Ocean Hill will set high behavioral standards to ensure orderly classroom environments that promote student engagement and achievement. To ensure an environment where teachers can focus on teaching and students can focus on learning, the school will implement a strict code of conduct and underscores the school’s core values through example, instruction, and community building. Each week, the entire school will gather for a Community Meeting where the value of the month is reinforced and student accomplishments are celebrated. With Leadership Prep Ocean Hill’s focus on five core values, students will continuously re-examine the core values throughout the community meeting circle, and draw connections between the values, their classroom content, and their interactions with peers.

Leadership Prep Ocean Hill’s school culture will convey a positive, can-do outlook which holds that students can create whatever options they want in life through self-discipline and hard work. Beginning in Kindergarten, students will be exposed to the world of high school and college with the implicit and explicit message that with hard work they have all the tools and ability necessary to succeed in these institutions. This message will be communicated through classroom lessons, exposure to mentors and tutors from institutions of higher learning, and real and virtual tours of campuses.

Students need a safe and orderly environment to be productive and successful. Leadership Prep Ocean Hill will maintain a calm, composed, and disciplined school environment that maximizes the amount of time on task. The school’s approach will include: an enforced school dress code; daily instruction in core values; various daily routines and rituals.

As the school’s students strive academically in order to earn life choices, they will also be exposed to as much of the wider world of art, music, sports, recreation, and nature as possible. Such exposure is essential to helping students to see the life that is possible for them (and for their communities) through their own perseverance and commitment. Field trips will include visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Natural History, Lincoln Center, and various children’s museum around New York City. LPOH will also partner with other organizations to bring their program to the school’s students.