The 2021 New Year did not start as we expected with COVID-19 causing school closures for the month of January, and our teachers and students all having to show our D-PREP Core Values of resilience, adaptability, and compassion, as we worked to adjust to online learning and supporting one another during this time.
As the first semester at D-PREP comes to an end, it is great to reflect on some of the impressive growth of our students and the high-quality work our students have created across their classrooms. I am impressed with the engaging and meaningful learning happening in every classroom at D-PREP.
D-PREP believes in and emphasizes the development of each student’s character, heart, and soul, as much as their academic skills, their mind. We embed work on a character throughout everything that we do, in our Units of Inquiry, our morning circle time, and our life skills curriculum.
It is this real-world learning that excites and motivates life-long learning and that develops young people who not only deeply understand their world but who are also committed to making our world better each and every day.
Each year the opening of school means a fresh start and the setting of goals for the new academic year. It is also a time for students to meet their new teachers and to settle into their new classmates and the expectations in their new environments.
Message from Ms. Lady Dear D-PREP Community, We are so thrilled to have our very first D-PREP monthly newsletter. The …