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Brighter Horizons Academy is the largest full-time pre-k through 12th accredited Islamic school in the South. The Academy's mission is to graduate practicing Muslim leaders and responsible citizens prepared for college entrance and the twenty-first century's career challenges. "The Academy's mission is to graduate practicing Muslim leaders and responsible citizens who are well prepared for college entrance and career challenges of the twenty-first century." Our mission will be achieved through educational excellence within a healthy learning environment, intimate adherence to Islamic practices, and strong collaboration with positive interaction among school, students, parents, and community. "Brighter Horizons Academy will be a model Islamic educational system within which learners may develop to their fullest potential and become a generation of leaders and individuals who are highly motivated to be successful in this life and beyond." Our academic counselors align and work with the Academy's mission to support all students' academic achievement to ensure they are prepared to become the next generation of parents, workers, leaders, and citizens. Students need support, guidance, and opportunities during this time of rapid growth and change. They will face unique and diverse challenges, both personally and developmentally, that impact academic achievement. Our academic guidance counselors are devoted to meeting the needs of our middle and high school students. Islamic Education is unlike other kinds of Education, which primarily focus on cognitive objectives. In that case, a student gets knowledge for the sake of knowledge and is expected to soak all the information taught, like a sponge. However, Islamic Education focuses not only on the cognitive but also on the affective and psychomotor domains. Here, learning objectives are designed to develop Islamic values, attitudes, and behaviors (Affective). Skills and proficiencies in performing various Islamic obligations such as reading Qur'an, performing Salah, Sawm, Zakah, Hajj, skills in dealing with others, and giving Da'wah to them are also developed. (Psychomotor) We believe that the mission of Islamic Education is "Tarbiyah," or to educate students and take care of them and train them at all levels. Tarbiyah focuses on behavior modification and development under the Qur'an and Sunnah. Teachers at the Academy are expected to partner with parents to help integrate Islamic values during the school day. The Academy works to train and empower teachers to incorporate Islamic values in their lessons and implement character building elements in their lesson plans. Staff model themes on campus through announcements – assemblies – bulletin boards – forums, and banners. All this is done to have students apply good character and tarbiyah in their own lives. The field of Islamic values and tarbiyah education is the primary target to secure our children's futures as practicing Muslims. The values, attitudes, and skills that our Muslim children learn today will indeed shape and form their character as future adults and community leaders late in life. Through the tarbiyah practices and modeling of Islamic ideals, we will be able to produce Muslims who will balance in their thinking well-rooted Islamically well trained morally, and well prepared intellectually to secure a righteous life and be future leaders insh'Allah. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence and character are the goals of real Education. View full school