Provide opportunities to develop and practice math and literacy skills in any of the following areas, based on need and program focus: If Literacy: Use and develop student reading skills (phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension) and writing skills (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions). Our challenging academic programs develop internationally minded, critical-thinking students able to take complex and often disparate knowledge, concepts and skills, and forge these into new and unique ways of solving problems.