2. Shipley’s Mission Statement EXCELLENCE  The Shipley School is committed to educational excellence and dedicated to developing in each child a love of learning…  Through a strong college preparatory curriculum in the humanities and sciences, the school encourages curiosity, creativity, and respect for intellectual effort. ETHICS  …and a compassionate participation in the world.  Shipley upholds and promotes moral integrity, a sense of personal achievement and worth, and concern for others at school and in the larger community.

3. School Motto Courage for the Deed, Grace for the Doing Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis

4. Children must Fall in Love with Goodness They must aspire to do their best and be their best  Doing your best: Being your best is our overarching umbrella  Create a Hook  Let virtues pervade curriculum  Provide guidance and opportunities to put virtues into practice  Opportunities for Self evaluation  Introduce real-life inspirational characters who embody these virtues  Create songs, poems, plays, and art to depict and display these virtues in action  We have to be people of integrity—we need to become what we wish our students to be

5. Compact for Excellence and Ethics BEST WORK: To help all students do their best work Students will:Students will not: Teachers will: Teachers will not: BEST SELF:To help all students feel welcome, safe, respected and valued Students will:Students will not: Teachers will: Teachers will not:

6. Our Classroom Compact

8. BEST PRACTICES Opportunities to:  Question  Investigate  Formulate  Debate  Assess  Justify  Solve CHARACTER TRAITS Promote:  Curiosity  Passion  Resourcefulness  Initiative  Perseverance  Ownership  Confidence Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

9. BEST PRACTICES Opportunities to:  Imagine  Hypothesize  Select  Compose  Construct  Create  Invent  Recommend CHARACTER TRAITS Promotes:  Self-direction  Enthusiasm  Determination  Drive  Pride in work  Joy  Satisfaction Creativity and Innovation Creativity and Innovation

10. BEST PRACTICES Opportunities to:  Interact  Discuss  Report  Explain  Persuade  Listen  Debate  Write to others  Work with others CHARACTER TRAITS Promotes:  Courtesy  Cooperation  Self-monitoring  Adaptability  Sensitivity  Organization  Patience  Confidence  Leadership Collaboration and Communication Collaboration and Communication

11. BEST PRACTICES Opportunities to:  Understand the fundamental needs of humans  Understand the influences of geography and history  Study other cultures  Meet/interact /network with people CHARACTER TRAITS Promotes:  Empathy  Self-awareness  Other-awareness  Generosity  Respect  Open-mindedness  Global Citizenship Global Awareness and Multicultural Literacy

12. Hooray for the USA

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14. AANI AND THE TREE HUGGERS A True Life Story From INDIA

28. Teacher’s Goals (Purposeful Activity)   1) To empower students by having them make decisions about the play.   2) To give students ownership of the play, so that they will have greater investment of self in all aspects of the production.   3) To foster the development of self as actor, writer, illustrator, singer and dancer.   4) To enhance patience: Students wait their turn on stage and they have to sit very still on and off stage when others are acting.   5) To nurture greater responsibility: Children are responsible for memorizing their own speaking and singing parts, for appearing on stage on cue, for remembering their own props, and for signaling to others on stage, when speaking parts are forgotten. (More)

29. Teacher’s Goals   6) To develop self control: Control of the body, mastering the synchrony of actions and words, resisting the urge to wave to the audience from the stage (even if parents in the audience wave first),   sitting absolutely still on stage until their character comes to life (children practiced meditating and found that breathing calmly certainly helps),   resisting the temptation to pick fallen fragments of costume or scenery off the stage floor, and staying calm when not on stage. (More) (More)