MISSION
To continuously build an inclusive and supportive community where learners participate in their emotional, social, and intellectual development by being aware of the present in an enjoyable and non-judgmental way, and actively engage in life-long learning through caring interactions and safe risk-taking.
VISION
A creative place to be, explore and belong.
A creative place
That embraces me, makes me feel safe, and allows me to be me.
to be,
To discover my interests, friendships, and my uniqueness.
explore,
I engage in fun, hands-on activities and use all my senses to learn about the world.
and belong
I can be myself, I feel welcomed, respected, and, celebrated for who I am.
WE VALUE
- Joyful, active learning
- Diversity
- Awareness
- Uniqueness
- Inquisitiveness
- Initiative
- Critical, creative thinking
- Honest, caring relationships
- Community building
OUR PRINCIPLES
Our principles that guide our policies, decisions, and actions are ingrained in our name:
GLOBAL means the acknowledgement of the humanity we share with all peoples. It is our way of viewing ourselves and the world that respects, encompasses, and coherently interrelates diversity, multiplicity, and complexity in every aspect of our lives implied in our IDEA of the school.
Global Intelligence
A comprehensive understanding of our place in the world that integrates ways of feeling, thinking, and interacting responsibly.
- We foster social-emotional growth through the recognition of feelings, their expression, and the awareness of their impact on oneself and others.
- We encourage creative, comprehensive, and critical thinking and support bold initiatives by our learners and teachers.
- We emphasize empathic, compassionate, and kind actions that contribute to develop social and community skills.
Global Development
The continuous unraveling of the human potential for each unique person, in its integrity, to be and become, who each can be within a community throughout a lifetime.
- We acknowledge that each child is unique, with specific beliefs, interests, emotions, and abilities, and meet each one at its own stage of development.
- We identify and appreciate each learner’s distinctive patterns and rhythms of learning, feeling and behaving, and we assess the development of each student to guide our teaching
- We interrelate different subjects through projects, themes, and/or current events to broaden each learner’s perspective.
Global Exploration
Learners feel comfortable to seek their interests, ask questions, imagine, search for answers, examine and evaluate options, make mistakes, create, arrive at conclusions, and reflect on their processes.
- We create a safe and joyful environment for learners to take risks at their own pace, learn from their mistakes and successes, and be proud of their own processes as well as the results.
- We offer a variety of activities throughout the day for learners to experiment, examine, test and value their feelings, beliefs, interests, and ideas, individually, with peers, and with adults.
- We promote cross-disciplinary learning through projects, thematic inquiries, and problem-solving processes that connect real life to learning and valuing the students’ interests.
Global Attitude
Acknowledging, respecting, and valuing different ways of feeling, thinking, and behaving t allow us to develop deep connections with each other and our environment.
- We nurture honest, respectful, and caring relationships between learners, learners and teachers, teachers and families, and the community at large.
- We provide a global context to the topics being taught, invite our learners to consider alternative viewpoints, model humility, a growth mindset, and open-mindedness and cultivate nature awareness, responsibility, and sustainability.
- We endorse collective decision-making as it involves deep listening, civil debate, and negotiation, necessary skills to successfully interact with others.