Our Mission:
To provide students, families, educators, school districts, and agencies high quality, cost-effective, value-added, and sustainable education, professional development, technical assistance, and resources that are informed by an enduring commitment to deep leading and deep learning and that are grounded in our core values, appropriate research-based content, and best-practice.
Core Values
We believe that:
- Our ultimate goal is to enable students to become changemakers who engage the world and change the world by participating and contributing as fully as possible in the communities and the world in which they live and to begin planning upon admission for transitioning to their home, school, community or adulthood.
- Deep learning and working are at the heart of everything we do.
- Wellness is essential for deep learning. It is an active, on-going process for staff and students of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life.
- Mutual respect, reflection, and collaboration are expected and infused into all partnerships.
- The family unit and the family-school partnership are essential factors in supporting and sustaining a student’s wellness, learning and development.
- Cultural diversity enriches and enhances all members of South Coast Educational Collaborative.
- South Coast Educational Collaborative is a reflective learning community for students and their families, educators, stakeholders, and the Board of Directors.
- Leveraging digital enhances our pedagogy, learning partnerships, and our work and learning environments.
- Our productivity, especially team productivity, means exceeding expectations, increasing team efficiency, and enhancing individual team members’ wellness and professional growth.
- Teams are best supported when they have compelling direction, the materials and resources they need, a work environment that supports wellness, collaboration, inquiry, and innovation, incentives for excellent team performance, and targeted professional learning and coaching.
- To sustain our work, we need to be forward thinking, proactively seeking and implementing new ways and opportunities to help staff and students be well and grow.
- Respect for the natural environment and effective environmental stewardship practices are reflected in our daily operations and in the design and delivery of our products and services. Staff are crucial partners in achieving and sustaining our environmental goals.
