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The San Francisco School is committed to cultivating in each student the awareness, skills and courage to take meaningful and effective action in the interest of equity, justice, multiculturalism, environmental sustainability and peace.

Curriculum Scope and Sequence   Overarching Understandings (samples)
  • Humanitarian Promise Curriculum
  • Service Learning at every grade level
  • Multicultural Curriculum
  • Environmental Curriculum
  • Social Justice Curriculum
 
  • How can we be friends in a community?
  • What is poverty and why does it exist?
  • How are just and equitable societies created?
  • How does science contribute to creating just and equitable societies?
  • What is the “tragedy of the commons”?
     
Pedagogy   Celebration of Humanitarian Values
  • Embedded curriculum
  • Student Centered: Students finding and integrating their own passions
  • Interdisciplinary Approach:  Social Action Integrated into Core Curriculum
 
  • Environmental Celebrations
  • Social Justice Ceremonies
  • Almost Zero Waste Classrooms
  • Cultural Kitchen
  • Annual Peace and Diversity Book Fair
     
Professional Development    
  • Diversity and Multicultural Conferences and Training
  • Service Learning Training
  • Environmental Sustainability Workshop
  • Anti-Bias Training
  • Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Dialog
 

 

See also: Our Institutional Commitment | Teaching Humanitarian Promise

 

 

  


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