Ascension Education
By Mr King
The Mission of Ascension Education
To transform the institution of American public education, and to lead
students and teachers on a path of mutual learning, discovery, development,
evolution, and intelligent revolution towards ultimate universal self-actualization.
The Goals of Ascension Education
1. To serve as facilitators and orchestrators in the evolution, awakening,
and development of our students academically, socially, physically, mentally,
emotionally, ethically, and spiritually.
2. To facilitate and orchestrate in the development of character and integrity
in all of our students for the purpose that they live lives of responsibility,
fulfillment, and happiness.
3. To facilitate and orchestrate knowledge, understanding, and wisdom,
and to create the opportunity for all of our students to become successful
learners and healthy human beings.
4. To facilitate and orchestrate for the health and well-being of our students
and their families, our school, our community, our society, our state,
our nation, our world, our planet, humankind, and all life.
5. To relate to all students as uniquely intelligent human beings who can
learn, grow, transform, and powerfully enjoy learning and life itself.
6. To embrace the challenge of truly making a difference with each of our
students and truly impacting their lives in a powerful and real way.
7. To share and explore together with our students new ways of being, thinking,
acting, and understanding life and our relationship to it.
8. To facilitate and orchestrate in the development of motivation from
both inspiration and self-discipline within our students.
9. To facilitate and orchestrate in our students attaining levels of excellence
academically, physically, mentally, ethically, spiritually, and in their
own chosen life disciplines.
10. To empower our students in order that they are progressively able to
achieve whatever goals they set for themselves through the power of their
own knowledge, intelligence, skills, talents, and abilities.
11. To intentionally seek out and work to create groundbreaking ways to
affect powerful learning in our students, the school, the community, the
state, the nation, and the world.
12. To remain free, creative, and progressive as teachers on the frontier
of institutionalized education, on an ever-evolving journey of awakening,
teaching, learning, facilitating, orchestrating, and empowering.
13. To be responsible for our projecting positive expectations and acknowledgements
for all our students and their families, our fellow teachers, and to all
school administrators.
14. To be responsible for our being authentic, open, and strongly related
to our students in order that we may form a mutually empowering relationship
with them.
15. To be able to powerfully bond with our students while simultaneously
being able to maintain the authority necessary in our classrooms for workability.
16. To consciously work to find our own proper personal balance in between
relating to our students in an uplifting and caring way, and disciplining
them in a motivational and constructive way.
17. To utilize a constructivist, student-centered, liberating teaching
approach as much as is possible and a behaviorist, teacher-centered, domesticating
teaching approach as much as is necessary in our classrooms.
18. To be responsible for making education fun while maintaining integrity
to learning in order that it become more possible both quantitatively and
qualitatively.
19. To be responsible for creating a stimulating, interactive, exploratory,
extraordinary, and transformational classroom environment and experience.
20. To provide opportunities that will allow our students to learn to become
leaders who can make independent and interdependent choices in practice
for them to become problem solvers who can work both on their own and in
a team environment.
21. To work cooperatively with other teachers, faculty, and administrators
with the purposeful intent of being a generating force for knowledge, integrity,
responsibility, partnership, and empowerment within the school and community.
22. To communicate openly and frequently concerning the present status
and progress of our students with parents and administrators.
23. To seek mentors, become mentors, and become collaborators with other
teachers as much as possible, as necessary, and when the opportunity presents
itself.
24. To develop in our own capacity to be completely flexible and yet also
completely unstoppable when it is the right thing to do also as a teacher
in the best interests our students.
25. To be willing to take some risks in the best interests of our students
and our school, and to also be willing to take responsibility for taking
those risks and the consequences that go with them.
26. To fundamentally educate our students thoroughly and in depth with
each of the concepts within the Ascension Education Concept Foundation.
27. To always be students of the discipline of teaching and also always
of our students themselves.
28. Finally, to be champions and creative builders of a future made up
of champions and intelligent human beings who are on the road to knowing
and being and who they are, can, and will be; empowered with knowledge
and understanding; and profoundly to standards of educational excellence.
www.ascension-education.com
Comments on "Ascension Education"
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On Sunday, February 6, 2005, Solace
(1069) wrote:
*smiles* My high-school education was at a school named "Ascension College" it held barely any of these principles...such a shame...
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On Sunday, February 6, 2005, Mr King
(547) wrote:
My dream to create "Ascension University" and the "Ascension Education Foundation" will be realized. I place my word and my honor on this fact. Love always Solace, Seth.