WELCOME TO VILLAGE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Who we are
The vision of leadership at Village Leadership Academy is to inspire students to become leaders in their community and to equip them to discover their individual value and purpose in the world. Village Leadership Academy cultivates leadership each day through Steven R. Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which are taught in Kindergarten through 8th Grade.
Village Leadership Academy is Idaho’s first K-8 Leader in Me® school and earned Lighthouse recognition in Spring 2020. Our building is a K-8 facility that serves approximately 350 students and is a neighborhood school of choice.
The success of our school is due in large part to the participation, talent, and hard work of our students, staff, parents, and community. Our school is committed to developing and delivering a well-rounded educational program for all its students using the Leader in Me model. We believe this includes rigorous academics, varied co-curricular programs, and an effective partnership between home and school.
VISION
Village Leadership Academy inspires students to cultivate their individual gifts and abilities, equipping them to discover meaningful value and purpose in the world.
MISSION
Village Leadership Academy provides a challenging, hands-on curriculum to cultivate students to be critical thinkers and confident leaders in a safe, supportive, and loving environment.
Our Village includes passionate, innovative, and encouraging teachers, administrators, parents, and community members all working together to support our students.
Founder’s Message
Life in a village offers the opportunity for each member to bring their gifts, talents, and abilities to the forefront in order to strengthen the larger community. Village Leadership Academy is like a village, where every member is valued as an individual, with talents to be cultivated and shared, and is a vital member of a larger whole. Every member of our village works together toward the common goal of a safe environment, where learning flourishes and students feel safe, supported, respected, accomplished, fulfilled, and important. Students are instilled with the values of integrity, honesty, hard work, perseverance, loyalty, dependability, compassion, empathy, respect, leadership, consideration, and confidence.
Consistency is a fundamental part of our village’s approach to education. Our innovative teaching methods provide teachers with tools to assess the needs of their students to maximize each student’s growth and success. These methods create an environment that is engaging, academically accelerated, progressive, and motivating to foster a love of learning in our students. It is our goal to help each student discover and reach his or her full academic potential while also cultivating their unique gifts and talents in a safe, supportive, loving environment.
Members of Village Leadership Academy work together, reach out to those around them, and are aware that they are part of a greater community and can make a difference. Through their education at VLA, students are equipped to handle real-world situations, are given tools to approach academic challenges, and are prepared for higher education. They understand the importance of obtaining satisfying employment and ultimately become responsible citizens and leaders who make positive contributions to the world in which they live. Our village includes students, teachers, administrators, parents, and other community members all working together to support the students in a positive way that invites learning to be challenging, exciting, interesting, hands-on, and a lifelong endeavor.
Welcome to our village.
