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Big Questions. Big Conversations. Big Opportunities. Truth, respect, and kindness are Forman School’s core values. They are also the pillars of a new program launched this school year to build integral skills for students’ success beyond Forman.
Allie Maxwell, Assistant Head of School for Internal Affairs, spearheaded the new program, TReK, or Truth, Respect, and Kindness Expedition/Experience. The ‘e’ stands for expedition or experience, depending on the programming. There is one expedition at the beginning of the year and experiences throughout the year. “The goal [of TReK] is to have a holistic way of talking about how we support the development of social-emotional learning skills and how students engage with the world, whether that’s related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging work, social justice work, or how do you make a change in your community,” Maxwell says. The TReK program was created out of the desire to replace Saturday classes with an innovative and transformative experience that would still keep students engaged.
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