RESPONSIBILITY

• To engender a sense of motivation towards excellence by expecting the best
• To stress character as an essential building block of achievement
• To hold ourselves accountable for the high expectations we place upon our students

INTEGRITY

• To remind students of the best things in life and learning and to model these examples in our classrooms
• To expect these best things to be common hopes for all of our learners in our family
• To model our hopes for them by our own behavior and ethic

SERVICE

• To grow and nurture a sense of family within our school and community
• To expand the sense of community to include the city and the world

EXCELLENCE

• To guide all learners toward the goal of leading discussions, lessons and eventually themselves
• To foster individual strengths into virtues that can be utilized to help our school community
• To help children to envision themselves as the leaders they all have within them to be
• To set goals above the common run of expectations for our students so that their reach exceeding their grasp becomes commonplace
• To honor achievement as a family tradition
• To excel academically and become lifelong seekers of knowledge