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.
This tradition,
grounded in the values of Jesus, educates the whole person while emphasizing family spirit
in a
nurturing, caring
environment, attentive to the moral, spiritual and religious development of students.
Beginnings, a Toddler Program and Nursery School
in New York strives, as they say, «to create a
nurturing and stimulating
environment grounded in respect for children and the ways that they learn.»