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**Core Beliefs**:

 * 1) Provide unlimited educational opportunities based on individual interest and abilities
 * 2) High expectations of individuals, students, self and administrators
 * 3) Everyone deserves a safe secure and stable environment
 * 4) Relationship of trust and respect in each classroom
 * 5) Learning is kinesthetic
 * 6) All students can learn and should chose their path, which will open the door to relevance
 * 7) Staff and students will be provided a welcoming safe environment
 * 8) Students in CTE and Academic will connect course work to relevant real world applications
 * 9) Students will make philosophical and literal connections
 * 10) Students will set short and long term goals and provided tools and practice to reach their goals
 * 11) CEC staff teaches the whole child, holistic teaching
 * 12) CEC will promote inclusiveness and citizenship. Every student has a feeling of being involved
 * 13) Achievement oriented success
 * 14) High expectations with challenging and rigorous learning
 * 15) Life long learners
 * 16) Mutual respect in community
 * 17) All students are and should be afforded opportunity to succeed
 * 18) Students and teachers will be invested in their education
 * 19) Teachers will be role models
 * 20) All students want to be successful and learned
 * 21) Skills can’t be assumed must be taught
 * 22) All students have a right to an excellent education
 * 23) Educational opportunities should be accessible to all
 * 24) Relationships are fundamental to everyone
 * 25) Students have an inherent desire to learn and educators' responsibility is to awaken that desire

**Key Ideas From Presentation**

 * 1) Treat every child to have unlimited options. The sky is the limit.
 * 2) Make the implicit, explicit
 * 3) Utilize the power of third person regard. (For example, "Dick Werpy is one of the best principals in the country. He made top five Principals of the Year and should have taken #1--he's #1 in my book." The positive comment is stated in front of the individual to a third party.)
 * 4) Focus on what you can control
 * 5) Develop positive relationships with an adult in the school around //the work// versus being friends with students.
 * 6) Relationships depend on listening more than talking.
 * 7) We are a family; hold students to the same high expectations you have for your own children.
 * 8) Good chance to succeed if your "school family" provides supports and positional significance.