A pre-school program centered on phonics instruction and number awareness identifies the children with the greatest needs and provides them with the intensive instruction necessary to prepare them for success at Cornerstone. 3 Foreign language is studied every year at Cornerstone beginning in kindergarten. Time in the classroom is especially important at Cornerstone. 4 An 11-month school year extends to the second week in July. Teachers are also provided with extra time each month to develop their lesson plans, attend workshops, and observe outside teaching methods.
Cornerstone emphasizes both the moral and academic development of the child.
Cornerstone in its humble way wants every child to leave us with what it takes to be a functioning member of our world. By design, a Cornerstone education works in concert with a child's family and community to make good American citizens. At Cornerstone, the success of its students is the joint mission of the children, their parents, and the school working as one. Cornerstone also demonstrates how old resources can be made new. One campus in Detroit, leased from the archdiocese, reinvigorates an unoccupied building on the site of the Sacred Heart seminary.