Our Core Values
By: Keegan
Our List Of Core Values
• Respect
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Responsibility
• Continuous Growth and Learning
Our Core Values Defined
I. Respect
The polite attitude shown toward someone or something that you consider important.
II. Communication
It is the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange
information, or to express your ideas, thoughts, and feeling to someone else.
III. Collaboration
It involves working with another person or group in order to achieve or do something.
IV. Responsibility
This could be duty or task that you are required or expected to do.
V. Continuous Growth and Learning
This involves a personal commitment to continue to make learning a priority every day and that even
when things become difficult we can learn from them and try to understand.
An Acrostic Poem on Respect
Respect is not free and cannot be taken for granted.
Earn it from others, only comes with good deeds.
Show respect towards others first, if you expect it in return.
Practice humility, patience and compassion.
Earnestly learn from others and give credit where it is due.
Cannot command it, you must work hard for it.
Total commitment to excellence is required.
Steven Beesley
The Wampanoag and the Pilgrims collaborated by working together and helping
each other.
The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag respected each other by promising no harm to
either group.
The Wampanoag and the Pilgrims communicated with each other by using a
interpreter, Squanto, to help
Understand each other.
The Pilgrims and the Wampanoag showed responsibility
By honoring their peace treaty.
The Wampanoag and the Pilgrims showed continuous
growth and learning by continuing to learn how to build,
Plant crops, and hunt.
Throughout this school year we have realized the importance of our core values and how we need to practice them in our
daily lives. We have also seen this same system of values in the lives of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. As we celebrate Black
History Month, again we see how a strong value system guided the lives of Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, George Washington
Carver and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in the South and became a leading abolitionist. “The Underground Railroad” proved to
be a lifeline to slaves hoping to achieve freedom. Harriet was one if its “conductors.” She worked tirelessly her whole life and is
responsible for rescuing hundreds of slaves.
George Washington Carver, best known for his work for the environment, believed in promoting alternative crops to cotton,
for example peanuts and sweet potatoes. George was also born into slavery, however once slavery was abolished he dedicated a
large part of his life to learning how to improve the nutrition of poor farmers both black and white. His received many awards for
his work and was highly respected in both the black and white community.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat this helped spark of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This single act brought
attention to the injustice of prejudice dealt our nation’s black people. Rose had enormous respect for her people and believed no
one should be discriminated against based on the color of their skin.
In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. demonstrated
his belief in bringing about change peacefully. Again his enormous respect for his own people and the need to see that there is no
place in our society for discrimination and segregation. He dedicated his life to this cause and demonstrated incredible bravery.
These four individuals are shining examples of people with very strong core values.
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