Core Values, Beliefs, and Learning Expectations

Cathedral Community School’s theory of action is that students learn best in a dynamic, performance-based, and innovative environment, where the student is the center of the process and the teacher is the facilitator of learning. In that sense, CCMS should provide a platform for students to self-manage their learning.

For students to be prepared for college and life, they need a strong academic background and a set of social-emotional skills that make them, flexible, healthy, employable, and happy. CCMS provides students with experiences and a school culture that promotes all of this.

As a learning community, we foster learning experiences and innovative practices that promote the following learning expectations so that students will develop:

Collaboration

Be adaptable, flexible, and take initiative.
Achieve goals by trusting in every person’s potential.
Ability to receive and give.
Constructive feedback to others.
Take into account other people’s ideas, experiences, and opinions.

Critical Thinking

Analyze and integrate multiple ideas and adjust them accordingly to an opinion.
Ask and research the answer to questions.
Elaborate well-informed opinions.
Self-reflect and justify our ways of life and opinions.
Be active thinkers and readers.

Problem Solving

Understand how to address a problem, pitch solutions, and decide the best course of action.
Plan questions, elaborate predictions, and design data collection and analysis strategies.
Identify opportunities, find resources, and look for results.
Use information and technology to solve problems.
Show resilience in challenging situations.

Creativity

Language Skills

Social-Emotional Skills and School Culture

At Cathedral Community School we foster and encourage our students and staff to apply our core values. These values guide our interactions and what we expect from each other.

As a student, I will...

Respect

Avoid behaviors that disrespect or devalues others.
Maintain integrity, both personal and academic.
Maintain integrity, both personal and academic.
Recognize the rights of others and my own.
Listen actively to others.
Be polite.
Recognize the common good.

Responsibility

Proactively and independently get my work done.
Learn from the outcome I achieve.
Making positive/adequate decisions and choices.
Accept consequences when I make poor choices.
Be accountable for my thoughts, words, and behavior.
Be present, be engaged, and be on time.

Resilience

Be willing to take and learn from disappointment and mistakes.
Manage and learn from discomfort.
Stretch myself
Believe that success is under my control.
Practice the skill of moving forward and maintaining optimism in my actions.
Self-advocate.

Why Study at Cathedral

Who We Are

Cathedral Community School is a private school that implements a curriculum supported by the CPALMS (State of Florida, USA) common core standards …