Our Guiding Principles

In support of the mission, Wellspring Learning Community teachers and administrators work collaboratively in an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust to design, plan and provide an excellent modern positive learning environment that builds on an ongoing process of self-assessment, evidence-based decision making, and continual improvement.  At Wellspring Learning Community we are committed to the following guiding principles:

• Establishing a safe and collaborative learning community that meets the needs of the students, school personnel, and parents
• Maintaining a well-kept, clean and vibrant physical campus environment
• Giving attention to the whole child by supporting students’ development in all domains, including the academic, linguistic, social, emotional, ethical, artistic, and physical
• Making education relevant to the real world and children’s life experiences
• Honoring diversity and individual differences
• Promoting the development of strong multilingual abilities
• Delivering an equitable education for all students
• Holding ourselves accountable for students’ learning and school-based development
• Putting in practice an interactive, creative approach to teaching and learning that combines the best elements of a variety of modern classroom instructional strategies to meet different learning abilities
• Empowering teachers as professional decision-makers