MISSION STATEMENT
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Why do we exist?
Our mission is to inspire JOY for life and learning, to educate, empower, & engage the whole child, and to nurture personal and social responsibility in an emotionally and physically safe setting.
VISION STATEMENT
- What must we become?
Our school will be an enthusiastic community of reflective, innovative, child-centered learners and teachers.
VALUE STATEMENTS
- How must we behave?
- We must be passionate and compassionate.
- We must be competent and committed strivers.
- We must unite knowledge with goodness.
- We must be diverse in: demographics, cultures, teaching styles and practices.
- We must be life-long inquirers and learners.
- We must be mutually respectful.
- We must maintain our own dignity and protect the dignity of all others.
- We must be cheerful and enthusiastic.
- We must cooperate and collaborate.
- We must maintain the highest, most reasonable expectations.
- We must make learning fun and active.
- We must implement curriculum which is connected to the real world and to our students’ personal worlds. It must be authentic, engaging, empowering and connected to real life experiences.
- We must create, adopt and adapt child-centered beliefs, practices, activities, and resources.
- We must be a healthy school community that involves and serves the larger community.
- We must develop and sustain edifying relationships between families and staff.
