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Success for Every Child
Philosophy & Mission
Mission
• To bring children together with excitement for learning.
• To create a “success-based” environment which emphasizes achievements rather than failures.
• To create an individual learning plan that is challenging and requires every student to strive toward excellence in all areas.
• To present books and reading skills in an engaging way; to develop children with “book fever”–an insatiable desire to read.
• To present a huge variety of mathematical experiences so that students gain a real understanding of these concepts rather than a focus on simply “filling in the right answers.”
• To weave art and music experiences into the everyday life of the classroom.
• To teach children peaceful, cooperative ways to handle conflicts.
• To develop the students’ ability to understand and express their emotions and to empathize with others.
• To help children recognize and reject gender stereotypes in our environment; to consciously provide opportunities for both girls and boys to experience a wide range of activities.
• To help children feel good about themselves and the groups to which they belong.
• To develop in each student an interest in cultures of people everywhere, cultivating the attitude that differences as well as similarities are to be valued.
• To help children learn to stand up for themselves and others in the face of bias.