Our Mission & Values
Our Mission
The Cambridge School of Weston's mission is to provide a progressive education that emphasizes deep learning and meaningful relationships. Our dynamic program inspires students to discover who they are and to make purposeful contributions to their school, their communities, and the world.
Our Values
Belonging
CSW’s core values guide the way we interact with each other, and with the community at large. They have been designed through a highly collaborative and iterative process, and are deliberately aspirational in nature.
As a community, we value:
Student-centered teaching and learning
As a community, we value:
Progressive education
We believe students succeed in a dynamic, process-oriented learning environment that emphasizes problem-solving, navigating complexity, and considering multiple perspectives.
Student-centered teaching and learning
We foster resilience, agency, and lifelong learning in our students by providing the ability to shape our curriculum, freedom to explore
existing interests, and opportunities to cultivate new skills.
Empathy
We help students consider how others experience the world, fostering curiosity and respect as tools to build understanding across differences.
existing interests, and opportunities to cultivate new skills.
Empathy
We help students consider how others experience the world, fostering curiosity and respect as tools to build understanding across differences.
Diversity
We know that the extraordinary education we offer is possible only because of the varied ethnicities, races, socioeconomic classes, religions, family structures, sexual orientations, physical abilities, gender identities, learning styles, and other identities that make up our community.
Equity
We strive to provide full access to the CSW experience through individualized support that ensures all students can achieve their full potential.
Belonging
We commit to nurturing authentic relationships and upholding the dignity of each person because every community member should experience a feeling of agency and emotional well-being.
Global engagement
We believe in the power of the CSW community to help create a more just and sustainable world.
Sustainability
We manage our fiscal and natural resources prudently while cultivating individual and collective responsibility for our planet's future.
Sustainability
We manage our fiscal and natural resources prudently while cultivating individual and collective responsibility for our planet's future.
NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT
The Cambridge School of Weston welcomes the perspectives of different ethnicities, races, classes, religions, and sexual orientations that enhance our mutual understanding. Our respect for the unique gifts of each community member provides a safe environment where all can grow.
The Cambridge School of Weston does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, retaliation, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, disability, mental illness, genetics, choice of health insurance, marital status, age, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable law.
CSW—a gender-inclusive day and boarding school for grades 9-12—is a national leader in progressive education. We live out our values of inquiry-based learning, student agency, and embracing diverse perspectives in every aspect of our student experience. Young people come to CSW to learn how to learn and then put what they learn into action—essential skills they carry into their futures as doers, makers, innovators, leaders, and exceptional humans who do meaningful work in the world.