Ventura Charter School of Arts and Global Education is a tuition-free public school serving over 440 students from Kindergarten through Eighth grade. VCS is an EL Education Network school and has a strong culture of adult learning and a commitment to being a professional learning community. The EL Education model supports leaders to demonstrate a growth mindset and a commitment to continuous professional learning in themselves and all faculty members with a strong focus on equity and social justice. School leaders build capacity in teachers in order to improve student achievement, and to sustain teacher commitment motivation, retention, and performance.

We are an organization that promotes diversity, mutual respect, openness, and trust where we feel safe to openly share our work, dialogue on our practice, and where we are empowered to serve our students to the very best of our ability.  We aspire to create a safe and supportive organizational culture that promotes quality work, commitment to excellence, and interconnectedness. We strive to embody a growth mindset by focusing on the process of achieving our goals while consistently seeking opportunities for improvement. And we operate with one unifying motto: “We are crew, not passengers.”