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The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and
advocacy • The indoor and outdoor
environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social
justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.
Members embrace the intrinsic value and right to exist of the other - than - human and of natural
environments, and recognize that the pursuance and
advocacy of a planetary ethic of environmental and social
justice needs to be grounded in, as well as restorative and celebratory of, local and indigenous communities and cultures.
Earthjustice represents the Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, Coalition For A Safe
Environment (Wilmington, CA), Del Amo Action Committee (Torrance, CA), California Communities Against Toxics, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Air Alliance Houston, Community In - Power & Development Association (Port Arthur, TX), Texas Environmental
Justice Advocacy Services, Clean Air Council (Philadelphia, PA), Utah Physicians for a Healthy
Environment, and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (West Virginia).