Faculty Promise

We are professional people working together to provide a warm, loving, and nurturing environment for children. We understand that we have a significant impact on our students' ability to learn, grow, create, develop, and relate peacefully and respectfully to other people and to the natural world. We share a vision of peace, both inner peace and global peace. We work to achieve that peace through our own daily experiences, and we are committed to being role models of kindness, courtesy, and respect for our students. We will endeavor to instill in our students and parents a reverence for the earth and all living things. We will teach our students to be stewards of the environment based upon our responsibility to take care of the earth and its ecosystems.

We commit to educate the whole child:

Intellectually by

• Teaching developmentally appropriate academic skills.
• Giving appropriate evaluation.
• Developing higher levels of thinking.
• Facilitating cooperative and independent learning.

Emotionally by

• Promoting unconditional acceptance of self.
• Assisting personal growth.
• Recognizing the interdependence of school and home.
• Providing a nurturing environment.

Socially by

• Encouraging unconditional acceptance and respect of others.
• Facilitating open communication.
• Instilling a sense of responsibility.
• Fostering cooperative group behavior.

Spiritually by

• Inspiring a love of learning.
• Sharing a reverence for life and a love of nature's beauty.
• Encouraging self-determination.
• Responding to global concerns.

Physically by

• Assisting in the refining and strengthening of physical skills.
• Teaching respect and care for the body.
• Recognizing the interdependence of mind and body.

We support this mission by providing a developmentally designed program and dedicating ourselves to lifelong learning.