Satori Approach to Learning

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

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

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.

Individualized

Choices in activities, topics, and products:

  • make the curriculum personally meaningful

  • allow the teacher to meet each individual’s strengths and variable needs

Community

Community is an integrated part of the curriculum at Satori School. The school and family community are built by balancing individual needs with the needs of others, supporting all community members, fostering productive communication and problem-solving, and encouraging active participation.

The Satori community is enriched by the greater community through family volunteers, content specialists, guest speakers, community experts, field trips, community service projects, and inter-school partnerships.

Satori intentionally chose this neighborhood because it reflects the diverse population we hope to serve. The school is located adjacent to a low-income, federally and locally recognized Restoration and Empowerment Zone.

Satori’s Seven Principles

The Satori Way is a comprehensive approach to engaging children in authentic learning experiences that prepare them as lifelong learners to be successful in the real world…

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