Vision Statement
Dogwood Charter School will be a model of innovation where students will gain the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and experiences needed to thrive in adulthood as contributing members to the local and global community with compassion and respect for the world and its inhabitants.
Mission Statement
The mission of Dogwood Charter School is to provide a respectful, student-focused learning environment based on the belief that children are, foremost, persons. Through the practice of the relational education learning model, students are empowered to take ownership of their own learning as their relationships, habits, and ideas are nourished. This not only fosters within them an avid desire for a life of learning but enables them to author their own lives confidently and resiliently as global citizens.
Shared Values
The child is a person and must be respected.
Education is a life devoted to examining ideas and growing in understanding.
Children are part of families and wider communities and cultures that all have stories.
Children relate to story and retelling as their natural process for deeper understanding.
It is through gaining a healthy understanding of their natural environment that children are able to grow into conscientious stewards of the world.
Children thrive in a safe environment in which their growth of skill and knowledge is assessed through organic and living means; accordingly, they are free to take risks and joyfully pursue their education.
Confidence and self-esteem are critical in the development of the “whole” child’s ability to become authors of their own lives.