Character Education & Community Service

A significant portion of our curriculum, time, and energy focuses on the growth of the whole child. Each day, the students are both explicitly and indirectly taught the importance of certain character values such as responsibility, respect, truthfulness, and trust. Students learn these values through discussion, literature, dramatic play, and music.

During daily class meetings and weekly all school meetings, students will learn about one specific value. Students are then positively reinforced when spotted performing an act that demonstrates one of the character values.

Another equally important aspect of our approach is the focus on community service. We encourage students to become active members of their community, whether locally, nationally or globally. These endeavors will occur inside the doors of our school and out in the field. Students are encouraged to think about people locally who can benefit from our hands on work, perhaps by serving dinner at a soup kitchen, collecting canned goods for a food pantry or raising money for a charity. Others may look more globally, where we can send school materials to a disaster relief center to facilitate the clean up and forward movement. We believe all people benefit when able to assist others.