In an effort to create a literacy-rich school, Community Education Partners (CEP) has been working hard to enhance students' academic progress through the creation of a literacy council. Comprised of teachers, administrators, students, and staff volunteers, the literacy council aims to enhance student literacy in reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. CEP began this process during the summer when Principal Lovely Tinsley (CEP NW) and Principal Denise McCarty (CEP SE) sent teachers from both campuses, along with Angela Whitford-Narine (Assistant Principal CEP SE) and Tina Chadha (FCAT Coach, CEP NW) to the FLaRE/RFPD Reading Leadership Team Institute.

As a continuation, both CEP campuses recently collaborated to generate strategies that both campuses could possibly implement. Now that this list has been created, the next step is for both campuses to vote on which strategies to implement universally. The goal of this initiative is to enhance student learning through consistent strategies that will enable students to deepen their understanding of course content.

CEP is unique in the sense that it caters to the needs of youth who are struggling in the public school setting. Despite the cause of their arrival at CEP, most of the students are able to perform at the same level of academia as their peers in public schools. The difference is their students require more motivation in getting there. By using universal strategies that will engage and motivate students, their overall goal is to enhance and strengthen the academic skills of their students.

By focusing on literacy, CEP not only aims to help their students pass standardized exams such as the FCAT, but CEP aims to prepare their students for the vital skills needed in life, the ability to read, write, speak and listen in a manner that is functionally acceptable and progressive to the society in which they live.