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Building 21 Allentown is a non-selective competency-based high school in the Allentown School District. It is a new secondary model that seeks to facilitate an authentic learning experience that will address the unique social and academic needs of all learners.

The Building 21 Allentown team will work closely with members of the local and school communities to carefully construct a robust network of online, offline, individual, small group, large group, skills-based, and applied learning opportunities to more effectively serve students of all types. Most importantly, the Building 21 model will develop teachers as guides and students as designers of their own pathways to graduation by giving them choice and voice about how, what, and where they learn.

Building 21 Vision:    
Passion. Power. Agency.

Sparked by their passion, aware of their power, students build agency to impact their world. 

Building 21 Mission:

To provide a supportive and flexible learning environment that challenges every learner to find their voice and to exercise choice as they design their own pathways to success.

 Our Vision and Mission in Practice:
As a school community, we are committed to the implementation of restorative practices. We will reinforce positive behavior and good choices, and we will support students to learn from the consequences of negative behaviors and poor choices. We will support students to use their power to proactively resolve both major and minor conflicts; to hold themselves and the community accountable for their actions; and to ultimately lead by example. Most importantly, we believe that every member of our team including office staff, parents, families, building maintenance, teachers and school leaders are responsible for modeling, teaching and re-teaching our neighborhood school-wide behavioral expectations. 

Each teacher has an advisory network where they foster a nurturing and supportive environment, as well as sustain ongoing relationships with families. Our teachers support their students in the goal setting process and assist them in advancing on their personalized learning plans.  

 

Jose Rosado, Jr., Principal/School Leader
 
Telsa Comunale,  Assistant School Leader