Hurricane Hill School Mission Statement

to provide a holistic, challenging, meaningful, and personalized
program for elementary school children, preparing them to lead
meaningful and productive lives in the social and environmental
context of Vermont, the United States, and the Earth, by developing in
each child the capacities to communicate effectively, to think
clearly, criticlly and creatively, to judge wisely, and to act
humanely and responsibly; to provide a meaningful exposure to
real-life teaching for students of college age who are interested in
education and community.

Director Responsibilities:
-hiring, firing, and training of staff;
-providing curricular guidance to staff;
-grant writing
-scholarship decisions
-admissions decisions
-teaching
-parent contact

Assistant Director Responsibilities:
-taxes and government forms
-legal research
-fundraising
-transcripts
-financial recordkeeping
-corrdinate food/supplies/vehicles

Staff responsibilities:
-staff meetings (minimum of weekly)
-leveled-group duties
-parent contact (with Director)
-1 general learning activity per day

Leveled-group duties (either K-1, 1-3, 3-5, or 5-7):
social group and parent familiarity;
level-dependent curriculum;
help for kids to organize level-independent activities
recording and testing progress (portfolios, tests, narrative
	description of the development of capacities)

Non-level (general) learning activity ideas:
art, field trips, music, guests, garden, forest, E/sports/dance,
movies (fun or educational), projects, science, topical discussions,
reading discussions, plays, collaborative storytelling, writing group,
walks, languages, computer time, cleanup, cooking