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Developing our beliefs and mission statement has been a two-year process involving our entire faculty. We began discussing our mission statement during the fall semester of 2001 and it turned out that we believed so many things about teaching and learning that we felt compelled to include in our mission statement that this statement ended up being a paragraph long!

We continued to refine this statement during meetings during the spring semester of 2002. Genevieve Snipes, our preschool director then served on an accreditation team that visited another school under review. She returned from this experience and reported that our mission statement was much too long. During a 20 hour trip to visit another school, all the lead teachers and many of the expert teachers worked to refine our beliefs into a much shorter statement. We presented this statement to the rest of the faculty, parents, and students. It was determined by consensus that it was our mission.

Our committee surveyed the faculty to determine what we believe about teaching and learning. The results were combined and revised by the faculty during the spring of 2002. The committee and faculty continued to make revisions three more times during the 2002 - 2003 school year. It was important to all of the teachers that the statement accurately reflect our beliefs. We spent a great deal of time on content and wording.

What do we believe about teaching and learning?

• We believe that each student has multiple intelligences and should have experiences in all of these areas.
• We believe that children must feel safe to learn.
• We believe that parents must be involved in their child’s school.
• We believe that students need concrete experiences to ensure that teaching and learning are active and engaging.
• We believe that instruction should be individualized to meet each child’s needs.
• We believe in using various methods of assessing a child’s and methods reporting their progress to parents. These may include progress reports, narratives, checklists, portfolios, and video portfolios.
• We believe our school building should provide a comfortable, clean, and home-like atmosphere.
• We believe in utilizing the latest research on best practices in education.
• We believe that while academically challenged students may not reach the same educational goals of gifted and talented students, that they can benefit from the Multiple Intelligences curriculum while contributing to the learning environment.

 

 

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Educating responsible citizens of the world.

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