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OUR BELIEFS ON TEENS
- We believe education should be an active process of gaining and adapting new information involving many learners.
- We believe we should support all teens in developing strong moral values that reflect empathy, respect, honesty, compassion, integrity, and trust – while keeping personal dignity in tact.
- We believe the curriculum should reflect life long learning by expanding the traditional subjects and making all learning relative.
- We believe that teens learn best in a safe, nurturing, respectful environment that promotes independence and a positive sense of self-esteem.
- We believe that teens should have the freedom to develop personal goals that encourage internal motivation and nurture inner harmony.
- We believe learning is a natural process that develops spontaneously in the learner.
- We believe teens should be encouraged to teach, collaborate with, and assist each other in their journey to attain and effectively use new and existing information.
- We believe teens should have the freedom to be themselves and develop individual and group identities within the community
- We believe the school community shares the love of each learner and that we respect and encourage each teen to develop his/her own uniqueness and individuality.
- We believe ownership, Empowerment, Accountability, and Respect are the four main components of the overall program.
- We believe listening, without judging, is crucial to the trust partnership with each teen.
- We believe that we all have a direct responsibility to our self, our family, our school, our community, our nation, and our world to question the foundation of our beliefs and we instill this responsibility as a continuing part of the curriculum.
- We believe that learning should take place in a non-competitive environment where learning is driven internally to better ourselves and each other.
- We believe learning is not about what is taught by the adult, but how a learner takes new information, connects it to existing information, and changes a perception or expands an idea or concept.
- We believe teens are directly responsible for their own actions and adults are expected to hold them accountable to their actions while maintaining dignity and respect.
- We believe teens should be encouraged to question and look at situations from multiple viewpoints.
- We believe understanding the developmental needs of teens is crucial to their overall support and learning.
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