Community School Constructs

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  1. Children learn by doing. This applies to decision-making, taking responsibility, academics, problem solving in both inter-personal and intellectual areas.
  2. Children learn best when working at a pace that challenges their ability, stimulates their motivation, and accounts for their interests. Effort by the staff toward implementing a flexible structure, and using a variety of presentation techniques that allow for each child's individual learning styles will be made.
  3. Children learn academics best in a supportive, cooperative environment.
  4. Children learn best in an atmosphere where their process, and not merely the end result, is acknowledged, and where mistakes are recognized as a natural part of the learning process.
  5. Opportunities for interaction between students of all ages lead to integration of learning, increased ability in social skills, problem solving, and decision-making.
  6. Children learn best in an atmosphere that acknowledges and integrates their social, emotional, cognitive and physical development.
  7. Children learn best when they feel good about themselves, and feel empowered socially, emotionally and academically.
  8. Children learn more readily when their home environment is philosophically compatible with the educational framework of the child's learning.
  9. Children learn best when parents work with the teachers in a partnership and ware actively and visibly involved in their child's learning. Children learn best when their horizons are broadened by exposure to the interests and styles of many people, including other children, teachers, parents, and the community-at-large.