Mission:
To build a classroom and school-wide community and to empower students by providing leadership opportunities and conflict resolution skills while teaching the values and traditions of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
|
Each Learning Community:
- Holds class meetings
- Gives compliments
- Shares concerns
- Collectively decides on course of action
- Shares equal partnership among community members in the spirit of the circle
- Believes each member of community is irreplaceable and has something to offer
- Works together for the good of the community
|
|
Learning Communities:
Pre-K- Waterbeetles
K- Rhythm Makers
1st- Believers in the Little People
2nd- Cherokee Power
3rd- Peacekeepers
4th- Keepers of the Sacred Belt
5th- Spirit of the Turtle
Staff- Keepers of the Fire
|
Class meetings are structured around our local tribal government: chief, vice-chief, recorder |