Birchwood
School
World Class Education
in a Globally Diverse Environment
A private
elementary school serving grades K through 8
| 4400 West 140th
Street Cleveland, OH 44135 Office: 216.251.2321 Fax: 216.251.2787 |
Our Mission
> Core Values
Our academic programming issues from a vision we have for each
Birchwood graduate - well-educated, hard working, productive,
and compassionate. From this vision, we construct our
programming and do everything in our power so that each student
might reach these lofty expectations.
A Birchwood graduate's attitude toward life is INSPIRED, seeking the
opportunities and experiences that will help issue in growth and maturity.
As graduates approach high school they possess goals and aspirations for
their high school careers. Their attitude is to be productive, to maximize
their opportunities and to develop their potential to its highest level.
Graduates look forward to challenge and superior achievement. Because
they are intrinsically motivated and productive, they are enabled to make
wise choices in life and more readily avoid the distracting and destructive
influences which face all teens.
Birchwood graduates DEVELOP the personal characteristics and ethics
which enable them to reach their lofty goals and aspirations. Through both
experience and instruction, Birchwood graduates have learned to reach
their goals through the virtues of hard work, self-discipline, fortitude and
responsibility. With the caring oversight of parents and committed
teachers, Birchwood graduates have learned how to face difficulty,
overcome weaknesses, and persevere toward success.
Birchwood graduates have been EQUIPPED with an academic training
of the highest standard. The academic content is extensive and
accelerated. Birchwood graduates have learned skills in critical and
analytical thinking. They have acquired strategies for creative thinking and
problem solving. Their training includes study skills, organizational
methods, and management skills. Birchwood graduates have been
introduced to a unique and robust array of special academic opportunities
that enrich their personal and academic development.
Birchwood graduates have NURTURED a strong conscience.
Conscience, the rudder which steers children and adults through moral
choices in life, requires education. Therefore, through the stories of great
and virtuous historical figures, through literature that illustrates courage,
strength, and compassion, and through direct instruction during the course of their own work, Birchwood students are taught core values stemming from the Greek cardinal virtues and a Judeo/Christian ethic, which we believe are common among God-honoring men and women of all cultures. By explaining and illustrating the good, we help to shape the student's
conscience in order that he might love the good and do the good.
Our claims must be VALIDATED by objective criteria. Therefore we
administer national standardized tests to all students to measure our
achievement. Our students participate in an array of academic
competitions which compare their achievements to the top students
statewide and nationally. We maintain close watch concerning the caliber
of high schools and high school programs for which our students qualify.
< Mission
< Founders' Statement
> Theoretical Base
> Core Values
Our academic programming issues from a vision we have for each
Birchwood graduate - well-educated, hard working, productive,
and compassionate. From this vision, we construct our
programming and do everything in our power so that each student
might reach these lofty expectations.
A Birchwood graduate's attitude toward life is INSPIRED, seeking the
opportunities and experiences that will help issue in growth and maturity.
As graduates approach high school they possess goals and aspirations for
their high school careers. Their attitude is to be productive, to maximize
their opportunities and to develop their potential to its highest level.
Graduates look forward to challenge and superior achievement. Because
they are intrinsically motivated and productive, they are enabled to make
wise choices in life and more readily avoid the distracting and destructive
influences which face all teens.
Birchwood graduates DEVELOP the personal characteristics and ethics
which enable them to reach their lofty goals and aspirations. Through both
experience and instruction, Birchwood graduates have learned to reach
their goals through the virtues of hard work, self-discipline, fortitude and
responsibility. With the caring oversight of parents and committed
teachers, Birchwood graduates have learned how to face difficulty,
overcome weaknesses, and persevere toward success.
Birchwood graduates have been EQUIPPED with an academic training
of the highest standard. The academic content is extensive and
accelerated. Birchwood graduates have learned skills in critical and
analytical thinking. They have acquired strategies for creative thinking and
problem solving. Their training includes study skills, organizational
methods, and management skills. Birchwood graduates have been
introduced to a unique and robust array of special academic opportunities
that enrich their personal and academic development.
Birchwood graduates have NURTURED a strong conscience.
Conscience, the rudder which steers children and adults through moral
choices in life, requires education. Therefore, through the stories of great
and virtuous historical figures, through literature that illustrates courage,
strength, and compassion, and through direct instruction during the course of their own work, Birchwood students are taught core values stemming from the Greek cardinal virtues and a Judeo/Christian ethic, which we believe are common among God-honoring men and women of all cultures. By explaining and illustrating the good, we help to shape the student's
conscience in order that he might love the good and do the good.
Our claims must be VALIDATED by objective criteria. Therefore we
administer national standardized tests to all students to measure our
achievement. Our students participate in an array of academic
competitions which compare their achievements to the top students
statewide and nationally. We maintain close watch concerning the caliber
of high schools and high school programs for which our students qualify.
< Mission
< Founders' Statement
> Theoretical Base
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