At Socrates Preparatory School, we believe that each student is a unique individual who requires a secure, caring, and stimulating environment in which to grow and mature emotionally, intellectually, physically, and socially. It is our goal as educators to guide students and help them meet their fullest potential in these areas by providing a safe environment that promotes self-discovery, self-res
pect, respect of all things and all people, academic challenge, curiosity, creativity, community involvement, and global awareness. We are committed to employing the most passionate, talented, and experienced educators to mentor our students through their academic journeys. We believe that a teacher’s role is to guide and to facilitate information while allowing a student-centered educational environment to fuel students’ curiosity, and ignite their interest and motivation. We recognize that each student has distinctive strengths and challenges; our objective is to accommodate for each student’s uniqueness by utilizing a multitude of research-based authentic assessments and instructional strategies designed to target their needs. We also promote student-teacher, student-parent, and parent-teacher dialogues; set goals; and consistently monitor progress. As parents ourselves, we highly value the role of parents in their children’s education and therefore emphasize constant parental involvement. In keeping with tradition and authenticity and meeting a continually evolving global world, our instructional practices are formulated in fine balance between the traditional Socratic foundation upon which education was built and modern technology-based instructional methods. Our objective is to empower a new generation of students via authentic, motivating, relevant, and cognitively challenging theoretical and experiential education. The curriculum is developed in a perfect marriage of arts and sciences to challenge students to use higher order cognitive skills and multiple-intelligence, allowing them to reach their potentials and aim beyond. Our absolute goal is to mentor and coach our students and prepare them to meet the challenges of today’s world by providing them with the fundamental skills and knowledge required to embark on their future endeavors.
