School-Wide Learning Expectations
The San Francisco School seeks to assure that each student can:
- Develop an understanding of self in relation to others
- recognize feeling and passions
- recognize talents and personal limits
- have confidence and take intellectual risks
- control impulses and delay gratification
- be willing to strive without necessarily being the best
- act with respect and in the best interest of others
- Demonstrate a passion for learning
- participate with joy
- seek understanding
- make connections
- consciously and actively pursue knowledge
- know and use resources
- reflect
- Know how to learn
- sustain attention and be persistent
- know problem solving strategies
- use previous learning
- learn in multiple ways
- appreciate the process as well as the outcome
- ask questions, take risks, and learn from mistakes
- be critical consumers
- share discoveries and understandings with others
- Demonstrate a high level of competence in reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, science, languages, physical education, art, music, and drama by meeting The San Francisco School grade-level standards
- Think creatively and express self
- express self through movement, speaking, and writing
- express self through visual and performing arts
- write, draw, sing, build for pleasure
- show confidence in front of a group
- use previous learning to express new ideas
- be interdisciplinary
- Become responsible citizens who participate actively in their community
- act respectfully with peers, adults, and teachers
- demonstrate care for materials and environment
- appreciate diversity, act inclusively, build community
- make informed decisions
- take action on beliefs
- take responsibility for actions
The program provides an increasingly rigorous and challenging intellectual experience within a nurturing educational environment. The comprehensive and innovative program carefully blends elements of progressive and traditional sources. The Preschool program is widely informed by the teachings of Maria Montessori. Throughout the school, the key goals are academic excellence, critical thinking, open dialogue, independence, social and multicultural understanding, and creative expression. The core values are courage, creativity, and curiosity.
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