ACDS believes that a student’s educational experience is strengthened when it occurs within a diverse community that fosters respect and understanding, values difference, nurtures empathy, promotes equity, and encourages personal reflection. To that end, ACDS seeks to develop a community that is both diverse and inclusive; where all members are fully included, as their full selves, in the life and work of the school.

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At ACDS, we value every student, family, and employee for the diverse perspectives, cultures, and backgrounds that they add to our community. Through strong social-emotional programs, serious reflection on issues of diversity and inclusivity, and an abiding commitment to community, we nurture in our students empathy, community-mindedness, respect, and self-awareness.

We encourage our students to be critical thinkers, independent learners, and caring individuals, skills that contribute to social equity and inclusivity. Our emphasis on effective communication skills helps students with widely differing backgrounds and views engage in civil discourse around difficult and complex issues. They learn to listen to one another, assess their own biases, engage in respectful and informed debate, and seek to expand their understanding rather than simply to win an argument or assert their point of view. In these ways we help our students increase their awareness of different perspectives and build their cultural competence.

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