Mission and Vision
Our Mission
Cloverleaf Enrichment School represents a partnership between family, school, and community. At Cloverleaf, we support and enrich home education through a collaborative inquiry-based approach. We believe that social and emotional learning goes hand in hand with academic growth to best prepare students for a rapidly changing world.
Our Vision
Because parents remain the primary instructional provider for our students at Cloverleaf, we support and enrich what occurs at home. “Support and enrich” includes the following:
Community - Students form relationships with peers and adults and practice important social skills by supporting and interacting positively with each other in a caring community.
Collaboration - Students learn to think together. Students engage in extended conversational exchanges with peers - expressing ideas, listening to others’ views, building off of others’ thinking, and agreeing and disagreeing respectfully. We believe “individual minds are nurtured in the conversations - the interactive thinking - of the community.” In collaborative exchanges, students develop leadership and initiative, flexibility, responsiveness, and responsibility.
Inquiry-based approach - Students consider big questions that lead to investigations into central ideas, issues, or topics. We value questions that promote “deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding.” Students develop skills of critical thinking and creativity through our “hands-on” and “minds-on” approach to learning.
Social and Emotional Learning - To support our students’ growth we prioritize these five social/emotional competencies:
Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness
Relationship skills
Responsible decision making.
Subject area expertise - Certified teachers with subject area expertise, provide specialized instruction (e.g. science laboratory experiments).
Support for literacy development - We recognize that students come to us with a wide range of literacy and communication skills. We value and support each student’s literacy growth.
School-home communication - Because parents remain the primary instructional provider, open communication allows Cloverleaf educators to work in cooperation with parents to support student growth. We offer feedback to students and parents to communicate progress toward learning goals.