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Values
Orchard Friends School is a school for children with Auditory Processing and Language-Based Learning Differences. Our student population ranges from kindergarten students through 8th graders. The program meets its mission to educate students with learning differences; while doing so, we operationally define “educating” broadly to include teaching about basic values. Part of our goal is to create an environment in which students learn academically in a positive environment that fosters basic acceptance of and value for each student as an individual.
Orchards Friends School began in 1999. At the beginning of that school year and at the beginning of each subsequent school year, the staff and students join together to have a group discussion. During these discussions the students share with the staff and their peers how they would like to be treated during their tenure at OFS. It is a collaboration during which a list is created. The final list is known to the school community as The Spirit Document. Once The Spirit Document has been created the staff and students sign it. The signature is to formalize our promise to function within its described values.
At OFS, it is our belief that the teachers and staff help to create the learning environment described above; it is also our belief that the students help to make that learning environment dynamic and very real for all of us. We are proud of the basic structure that we provide as a staff. We never cease to be amazed at the wonderful insights and contributions our students make to help us define and expand our fluid learning environment.
The following document includes some of the values that we hold at OFS. It also lists examples from current and previous Spirit Documents. Clearly, there is a melding of our values and the hopes and desires of our students
Please download a copy of the Values Booklet. (you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader):
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