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Expectations
We believe our students have endless potential and outstanding abilities.
Our goal is to help students in setting and meeting high expectations, meaning:
- Assuming and believing our students are smart, interesting,
inherently valuable and capable of graduating from college and growing
up to be important and successful human beings.
- Challenging our students to go beyond their current levels of
thinking, learning and self-definition.
- Teaching and expecting students to learn at a college level.
- Challenge ourselves to find new resources and ways of teaching.
- Examining our own attitudes to make sure we place no limits on any
group or individual.
- Demanding that students respect themselves, each other and us; that
their behavior demonstrates kindness and tolerance of cultural,
age-based, and gender-related differences.
- Never assuming or behaving as if poorly performing students cannot
or will not ever achieve academic and personal success.
- Realizing that a lack of information and access to resources may
sometimes discourage our students, resulting in a lack of motivation or
apathy which we must help them overcome.
- Knowing that traditional definitions of intelligence are limited,
and that students who appear to perform badly in school may have gifts
and talents no one ever noticed.
- Helping students discover their gifts and talents.
- Never getting mad at students for not knowing what we are teaching
them. If students could already behave and achieve at a college level,
they wouldn't need this program.
