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Providing a caring, safe environment.
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Developing lifelong learners in a rapidly changing world.
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Nurturing critical thinking, creative thinking and problem
solving.
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Measuring student progress with a variety of assessment
strategies.
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Focusing upon exploration and discovery as vital elements of
the school experience.
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Emphasizing the need for students to engage in research
based learning activities.
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Fostering an instructional environment where learning is an
active, interactive and constructionist process.
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Recognizing that learning is more effective when it is
metacognitive, when students evolve strategies to understand how they learn.
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Highlighting the personal qualities of self-esteem, physical
and psychological wellness, and success in a full range of experience within a school that
values every single person.
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Articulating social skills demonstrating respect for
knowledge of and responsibility to the larger group at school, in society, and in the
world community and its ecosystem.
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Appreciating the artistic, musical, dramatic, athletic, and
individual talents and gifts of members of our school community.
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Viewing professionals as a community of learners and where
continuous growth is an expectation.
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Empowering parents as partners in their own and in their
children's learning.
