How SOAR Works

• CORE ELEMENTS
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• CORE VALUES
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• CORE PRINCIPLES
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• COMMUNITY CONTRACT

Core Values

Success in life takes more than academic skills — it takes strong personal character and social and emotional competency. As we work to help students form excellent academic habits and understandings, we also focus our teaching on the values that will guide our students to lead socially responsible, productive lives. SOAR’s Core Values serve as a guide to our daily lives at school and in our lives beyond the classroom. In alignment with Responsive Classroom, SOAR’s core values form the acronym CARES and are defined as follows:

Cooperation: At SOAR, we make a constant and earnest effort to work in harmony to achieve common goals. We have a deep sense of belonging together in our school community.

Assertion: At SOAR, we stand up for our own ideas without hurting others or negating their ideas. We think for ourselves, even in the face of peer pressure.

Responsibility: At SOAR, we are reliable and accountable, and we understand that our individual choices affect the entire school community. We accept the consequences that come from our choices, and learn from mistakes so we do not repeat them.

Empathy: At SOAR, we work to know and have strong relationships with each other. We can put ourselves in another’s shoes to understand how they are feeling. We make others feel welcome and respected, and take care of each other physically and emotionally.

Self-control: At SOAR, we choose our words carefully, and make good decisions about our actions. We do what is necessary and sensible without needing to be urged by somebody else.