Mission Statement

-Make students active participants in the learning process by acting together as a team.

-Nurture each student's understanding of language and self.

-Create an atmosphere that cultivates social interaction within a secure environment.

-Encourage students to take risks and explore the world that surrounds them.

-Foster students' respect for themselves, authority figures, and their peers.

-Increase students' conceptual understanding of foreign cultures.

-Expose students to the new worlds that are opened to them as foreign language learners.

-Offer encouragement every step of the way.

"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.""---Noah Webster