What We Believe
We believe that a career in education is a calling: a professional ministry of service to students, families, and communities.
Life-changing learning is:
- GROUNDED IN TRUTH (which can be discovered by, but is not derived from, our own self).
- TRANSFORMATIONAL, resulting in the development of the learner across the cognitive, social-emotional, spiritual, and physical domains.
- INDIVIDUAL, though informed by and benefitting from socio-cultural setting (context and community).
- EXPERIENTIAL, and can be engaged in and represented by multiple means.
We believe the professional practice of education is:
- EFFECTIVE (as evidenced by life-changing student learning) and ENGAGING (as evidenced by students’ higher-order thinking and ownership of learning).
- PURPOSEFUL (focused on student learning rather than task completion, grades, or test scores) and INTENTIONAL (marked by achievable, measurable, relevant learning goals.)
- RELATIONAL (based in discipleship) and INCLUSIVE (based in equity).
- COLLABORATIVE (making connections with other professionals) and INTERDISCIPLINARY (making connections between subjects and to real world).
- RESPONSIVE (to culture, setting, and students) and DYNAMIC (flexible and adaptable, not static).
Conceptual Framework (.pdf)
