CLAS' tenets are embodied in our ten-point program for ensuring students' success:
1. Create a complete educational environment conducive to learning at all times
2. View student interest, curiosity, and choice as an asset and a contribution to the educational process
3. Affirm, accept and accommodate cultural and linguistic expression, behavior, and thought
4. Provide opportunities to learn how to think holistically
5. Emphasize foundational literacy and language skills
6. Differentiate instruction according to developmental-appropriateness
7. Apply a holistic approach to gaining knowledge - integrating subjective and objective experience and learning in all subjects
8. Establish a learning community that provides ongoing professional growth opportunities for teachers to expand, explore, and experience new ideas, concepts, and teaching methodologies
9. Create meaningful home-school connections that impact learning for all students
10. Create meaningful community-school connections that positively influence the perception of schools and their functionality in the local community