Satori Core Values

PHILOSOPHY

Satori believes that to reach their full potential, students need:

• a challenging curriculum
• individualized learning opportunities
• a respectful, nurturing community
• opportunities and skills for personal responsibility

BELIEFS

Challenging

A challenging academic and social curriculum provides students with learning opportunities that promote:

• personal and community responsibility
• higher-level thinking
• learning beyond grade level
• creativity
• risk-taking
• problem solving
• the use of multiple intelligences

Satori’s focus is on teaching children; therefore, its curriculum remains responsive, flexible and dynamic.

Individualized

Choices in activities, topics, and products:

• make the curriculum personally meaningful
• allow the teacher to meet each individual’s strengths and variable needs

Respectful and Nurturing

Respect is built by:

• valuing individual differences
• defining safe boundaries
• nurturing a community where people, their opinions, and their environment are honored
• adjusting personal responses and the environment to each child’s needs
• balancing group needs with the needs of individuals

Community

Community is an integrated aspect of curriculum at Satori School. The school and family community are built by:

• balancing one’s needs with needs of others
• supporting all community members
• fostering productive communication and problem solving
• participating actively

The Satori community is enriched by the greater community through:

• family volunteers
• content specialists
• guest speakers
• community experts
• field trips
• community service projects
• inter-school partnerships

Satori specifically chose this neighborhood community because it reflects the diverse population we wish to serve. We are located adjacent to a low-income, federally and locally recognized “Restoration and Empowerment Zone.”