An Uncommon Education

Mission

To create a community rooted in justice and equity where all children thrive.

Values Guiding Our Work with Children

We honor and nurture the whole unique child. We believe and cherish that:

• Children grow from the richness of diversity in community--racial, ethnic, social, religious, gender, and learning style.
• Children are inherently curious and imaginative.
• Children are naturally eager to understand their world and communicate their ideas.

We honor and nurture each child’s:

• Capacity for kindness, empathy, generosity, and truthfulness.
• Ability to explore, understand, and change the world through learned skills in math, language arts, scientific method, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
• Right to learn through play, art, music, dance, and drama.
• Need for outdoor learning--including games, imaginative play, and exploration of the natural world.

Supporting Values for the School

• Research guides our decision-making.
• Great teachers are at the heart of the learning process, and we provide them with opportunities to collaborate, network, and grow professionally.
• We innovate and embrace solutions toward racial, economic, and language equity.
• We build our community through partnerships.
• We ensure sustainable finances and seek resources to support outrageously ambitious projects.
• We believe in and contribute to high-quality public education, critical to a great democracy.

Our All Children Thriving Goals include:

1. Accelerate Social Justice

2. Advance Equity in Instruction and Learning

3. Shift and Share Power with all our People

4. Promote Healthy Integration for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity