Philosophy

Community

In your relationships with teachers, with children, and with the larger Children First community, we hope you will…

• Develop empathy, and an ability to listen to and identify with others.
• Show others kindness, compassion, courtesy and respect.
• Ask for help when you need it.
• Build mutually enriching, joyful and enduring friendships.
• Fall in love at least once.
• Feel a sense of belonging — of connection, caring and shared history.
• Collaborate in work, play and learning.
• Practice being both a leader and a follower.
• Learn to resolve conflicts so that everybody wins; engage in lively, respectful discourse with both adults and children; and move beyond conflict to work towards a shared goal.
• Develop an appreciation for diversity, a commitment to fairness, and a robust capacity for inclusion.
• Share responsibility for the care of our classroom and community.
• Come to see all the people in your community as teachers, and learn more about their work, their stories, their expertise, their passions, and their cultural traditions.