The Grace Way of promoting a culture of dignity and belonging within our diverse community emerges from bedrock commitments of the school.
我们对学术卓越的承诺
The Grace Way begins with our commitment to providing an excellent education for all of our students. 我们把归属感看作是学术上的必需品. Students who feel a sense of belonging at school will be more likely to embrace challenges in the curriculum, 在讨论中提出问题, 并与我们的教师和学生社区深入接触. 这就是我们严肃对待任何妨碍我们融入格蕾丝的障碍的核心原因, 其中包括系统性种族主义对我们社区的影响.
在我们的学术工作和社区建设中, 我们努力庆祝我们共同的人性,同时尊重我们的差异. We believe no student can hope to thrive in our increasingly diverse society without having the awareness, 的语言, 以及驾驭它的文化工具. 以种族扫盲为例, we believe all students must be equipped to discuss matters of racial identity accurately and compassionately. 适合低年级学生, this commitment means developing an age-appropriate vocabulary for discussing race without judgment or shame. 年龄较大的学生, this commitment includes developing the capacity to examine historical and cultural sources with an awareness of voices past generations have overlooked and ignored.
尊重不同的观点是我们当前使命宣言的基本承诺, in which the school celebrates "the ability to express one’s own ideas and to appraise those of others." The Grace Way seeks to cultivate the broadest possible curiosity in our students along with habits of effective scholarship like prizing intellectual 谦卑, 细微差别, 和坦诚.
我们的道德承诺
格雷斯之道渴望培育一种反对不宽容的文化, 促进经济增长, 寻求理解, 并且不辜负我们名字中固有的价值观. Our Episcopal identity and mission orient the school toward just and sound learning and to a set of ethical aims higher than individual academic achievement. 我们力求帮助每个学生培养积极的道德意识, 我们努力在我们的社区中培养相互理解, 谦卑, 尊重, 和善良. 哪里有伤害,恩典之道追求愈合和和解.
清楚表达我们的价值观
Grace seeks to provide its students with an outstanding education and with the desire to use it to make the world a better place. The Grace Way entails gaining knowledge about challenges the world is facing and gaining the skills necessary to do something about them. 这一目标是学校“反种族主义承诺”的基本组成部分, 股本, 和归属感,,董事会于2018年批准了该计划, 下面是.
在过去的几年里, t在这里 has been a proliferation of different definitions and models for pursuing antiracism and 股本. 我们并不总是清楚地传达这些术语的含义. 为我们在格雷斯, antiracism means something basic and fundamental: actively opposing racism in its individual and systemic forms. And at Grace 股本 means responding to inequalities in society by striving to provide equality of opportunity and access at school.
我们对反种族主义、平等和归属感的承诺
Grace Church School seeks to provide its students with an outstanding education and with the desire to use it to make the world a better place. 我们工作的每一个方面都得到了 多样性 以及我们社区的力量. 我们认为,公平和包容不仅是一个公正社会的标志, 同时也是良好学习所必需的美德. 所以, 格雷斯寻求承认和尊重学生的独特天赋, 家庭, 教师, 还有员工和文化, 信仰, 值, 以及塑造他们的经历——总是努力培养相互理解, 谦卑, 尊重, 和善良.
但是,如果我们不能说出名字,包容是不够的,公平是不可能的, 承认, 反对种族主义势力和一切形式的偏见, 讨厌, 恐惧存在于我们的社会中,并试图削弱我们中间的许多人. 知道了这一点, we commit ourselves to the work of antiracism and to the cause of justice: that all students may find in Grace a home, 可以从恩典中学到宝贵的价值吗, 并可能从格蕾丝那里听到为共同利益和人类尊严服务的召唤. ——grace多样性声明,2018年