Values and Beliefs

Great urban schools:

• Use the valuable knowledge and experience that children and their families bring to school learning.
• Produce high achieving students.
• Expand students’ life opportunities, available choices and community contributions.
• Construct education for social justice, access and equity
• Build on the extraordinary resources that urban communities provide for life-long learning.
• Need individuals, family organizations and communities to work together to create future generations of possibility.
• Practice scholarship by creating partnerships for action-based research and inquiry.
• Shape their practice based on evidence of what results in successful learning of each student.
• Foster relationships based on care, respect and responsibility
• Understand that people learn in different ways throughout their lives
• Respond with learning opportunities that work.