Our Mission In Practice

Respect is a person's worth or value.

Children will:

• Interact with peers, parents and adults with common courtesy.
• Recognize the authority of their parents and other adults in whose charge they are placed.

Parents and teachers will:

• Set clear, consistent and age-appropriate limits at home, at school and in public.
• Model the manners and courtesies of our culture at home, at school and in public.

Responsibility is recognizing the obligation to answer for one's actions.

Children will:

• Recognize needs within a community and take action to solve problems.
• Participate actively in the care of themselves and their environment.
• Contribute to the greater good at home and at school.

Parents and teachers will:

• Provide clear, timely and honest communication.
• Create and sustain safe, nurturing environments for learning.
• Define and clarify appropriate goals for children at home and at school

Resourcefulness is the ability to think independently and act assertively.

Children will:

• Develop independent problem-solving skills.
• Collaborate with peers and adults to direct the course of their day.

Parents and teachers will:

• Share time with children diligently and in creative ways.
• Provide children with responsibilities sufficiently general and difficult as to require resourceful effort on their part.