The Colby School Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide a rigorous academic experience where students stretch the bounds of their potential and are inspired with a passion for learning that lasts a lifetime.

Within an environment of mutual respect and personal accountability, where individuals are free to share and absorb a diversity of ideas, our students become a part of a responsible and supportive community.

Our students are empowered with the knowledge that they can, and will, make a difference in the world.

Our Preschool Mission Statement

The Colby Preschool is an environment which builds community, inspires creativity, and supports collaboration. Each child’s unique learning experience is honored and strengthened in a caring community. Our students acquire life long skills which they take with them on their journey toward academic excellence at The Colby School.

The Colby School creates a caring community of excellence that addresses the needs of the whole child: social, emotional, physical, and intellectual. Through the utilization of the research based Tribes model, we focus on academic excellence, cooperation, collaboration, creativity, conceptual ability, productive group dynamics, and social responsibility. The Colby community emphasizes the Tribes agreements: Mutual Respect, Attentive Listening, Appreciations / No Put Downs, Personal Best, and The Right to Pass. We strive to ensure that all that we do at Colby is consistent with the Tribes Philosophy.

Faculty members at The Colby School create learning environments where students play an integral role in the learning process – they create knowledge and learn by doing. Because all students are unique, Colby faculty members individualize curriculum, construct developmentally appropriate learning situations and build on the individual strengths of students. Faculty members continually observe and assess student learning to develop curriculum and opportunities appropriate for each student. We also believe in students as teachers and take every opportunity to allow students to solidify their own learning by sharing their knowledge with others. Through frequent professional interactions, The Colby faculty strive to provide integration of curricula throughout all classes.

The Colby School utilizes the Utah core as the base for curricula. Decisions regarding additions to or deletions from the content as outlined by the Utah core are made by the consensus of The Colby faculty. Classroom faculty members work closely with Enrichment faculty members to ensure to the greatest degree possible the integration of curricula within all classes. It is the goal of The Colby School to identify each student’s present level of performance and then move that student as far as s/he can go. Through teaching children not only information, but also how to think about information, we create individuals who can truly recognize their own potential.

The Colby School Objectives

1. Students will develop their emotional, intellectual, physical and social skills as part of a school community that focuses as much on the learning process as on the products.
2. Students will, through an integrated curriculum, develop the most complete understanding of topics by seeing how core concepts fit in a range of applications.
3. Students will develop the skills and attitudes to be successful now and in the future.
4. Students will develop a strong sense of intrinsic investment in learning so that they approach future problems and issues as life-long learners.
5. Students will strive for personal best in all aspects of their involvement at Colby.
6. Students will develop the skills necessary to succeed in a world with complex and expanding literacy and technology requirements.
7. Students will respect differences and strive to find connections with those whose ideas, backgrounds or cultures are different from their own.
8. Students will understand the need for and treat others with mutual respect.