• a learning environment that is bright and cheery, clean and welcoming, featuring abundant evidence of productive learning, the products of which are displayed throughout the school.
• a busy, active, open and inviting place where interactions between and among adults and students exemplify respectful communication - listening and speaking.
• a place where adults and students take pride in actively working together - caring, helping, respecting, encouraging, and challenging each other to grow and learn.
• a collection of diverse individuals forming a joyful, smiling, laughing, relaxed calm collective that honors themselves and each other by resolving conflicts peaceably.

We believe:

• the home, school, and community share the responsibility for helping youth to be effective citizens in the varied contexts of life.
• we must all be and feel safe in the school environment, and have the opportunity to meet our basic needs of belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
• conflict is a natural part of our everyday lives. The way we choose to respond to conflict largely determines whether the outcome is constructive or destructive.
• conflict resolution education empowers us to solve real problems and to choose responsible behaviors.
• discipline is a process through which we learn to self-evaluate and choose behaviors while making choices that do not deny constructive choice to others.
• as individuals, we will behave according to expectations that are clear, fair, positive, consistent, explainable and explained.
• a positive learning environment is more apt to exist when the adults are role models displaying appropriate, respectful, effective behaviours toward others.
• learning is a life-long process, and a significant purpose of school is to help us all fully participate in the learning process.

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