Community School for Social Justice is an active and caring learning community. Young people learn to solve and resolve, collaborate and create, and develop the intellectual and social skills to become thoughtful and engaged members of their communities. We honor each student’s heritage and values. We embrace a climate of social activism in which our students feel the confidence to address issues that affect their lives; we help them connect their desires with hope and possibility, and we provide the emotional and academic supports students need to earn a high school diploma and be successful in life. At CSSJ we place an emphasis on developing critical thinking through inquiry and project-based instruction. By understanding how to ask questions and examine real-life problems young people learn to consider solutions that are both practical and ideal. As students grow, learn, and reflect, we strive to guide them toward a sense of power and personal discovery to make change for themselves, for their own futures, and for the world in which they live.