Academics
The Sea Crest curriculum is well-balanced, and presents students with a challenging, relevant and varied array of activities throughout the day.
Instruction is individualized to meet students’ academic needs and personal interests, and our faculty members are given room to teach to their passions, but all classwork is designed with our core beliefs about learning in mind:
- All children can learn.
- Learning is a process, not a product.
- Learning should be purposeful and relate to real-world experiences.
- Learning should be joyful.
- Learning should be developmentally appropriate and sensitive to the needs of each student.
- Learning is social. Students need many opportunities to work together and collaborate in the learning process.
- A predictable environment is more conducive to learning.
- Students should have daily opportunities to construct their own knowledge.
- Students need to feel that their input is valued.
- To be successful learners, students need to know the right questions to ask and when to ask them.
- Students need to know themselves as learners by working in classrooms that provide time for reflection and self-evaluation.
- Students should know their “Personal Best” and recognize when and where to put forth effort.
- Teachers need to know their students as learners by observing them carefully and recognizing when to encourage them to move forward and when to provide extra support (scaffolding).
Character Education
Sea Crest believes in the development of its student as good people as well as good scholars, and character education is a central part of the Sea Crest experience. Our core beliefs are as follows:
- Character Education teaches respect and appreciation for multiple perspectives.
- Character Education builds a sense of empathy and inclusiveness.
- Character Education is explicitly taught and responsive to the needs of the community.
- Character Education has active and reflective components.
- Character Education values the richness of diversity within a community.
- Character Education utilizes a common vocabulary—such as that used in “Love and Logic.”
- Character Education teaches us the power of our choices.
- Character Education models positive character traits with the intention of students “internalizing.”
