Our Core Beliefs
- Uncertainty is the birthplace of learning and creativity
- Education is a dynamic, interactive, complex and collaborative process
- Effective professional development is coherent and practice-based, promotes an inquiry stance toward practice, and is linked to the needs and interests of the learners
- Strategic planning, design thinking and vision are keys to success in building sustainable quality learning environments
- Effective schools have a high degree of synergy between academics and operations
- Learning and Giving are the most important characteristics of effective educators
- Everyone is capable of exceeding “common wisdom” expectations and everyone is capable of defining their own learning agenda
- Quality learning environments are more like labs than factories
- Focus squarely on what learners CAN do to make thinking and learning visible
- The questions we ask and the ways in which we pursue answers do matter
- Good school governance is oriented toward long-term growth and sustainability
