GGS Values

As students grow into adulthood, they must learn how to manage their soft skills and adapt to unknown environments. Having the ability to face adversity and challenges is crucial. GGS educates students to become individuals who can respond to sudden, new situations with innovative approaches through setting achievable goals, scaffolding, and engaging in various classroom activities.

Our perspective of global citizenship is based on the following core principles: exploring, connecting, and contributing. It’s more critical than ever for students to acknowledge and understand cultural differences and people’s perspectives, discover the best possible solutions through challenges our connected society faces, and build relationships by developing a skill set to go beyond cultural barriers. Understanding specific context in various situations will provide opportunities to become global leaders.

While teachers cannot control student behavior, they can respond with consistency while enforcing school and classroom policies. In a classroom culture that places learning first, dishonest behavior is treated as an educational moment. To help internalize learning, GGS ensures that students reflect on and glean meaning from their behavior by listening and showing respect for their own thinking, then restating the expectation that dishonesty is never acceptable.

Social justice and inclusion go hand in hand. GGS takes a firm stance on being equitable and inclusive of all our students and staff, regardless of the identities they hold. Our idea of fairness is derived from considering individuals holistically and searching for solutions that reach mutually beneficial outcomes. By embracing justice, we allow our rules to treat everyone fairly and remain at a high standard that we cannot and will not accept otherwise.

Respect is valuing others’ ideas and contributions. It stems from accepting our commonalities and differences and utilizing them to create a rich culture of acceptance and care. At GGS, it is essential that we show consideration and patience with one another. We provide platforms for freedom of speech where agreeing and disagreeing are encouraged and sought out. It is only when we begin listening to the world around us, and treating others with respect, that we truly allow ourselves to grow, learn, and flourish.

Everything begins with trust. Trust is the most essential element in building relationships and improving learning. Building trust is a process. It is not just about trust between teachers and students, but between teachers and other teachers, and staff too. Trust is empathy. Trust is authenticity. Trust is the feeling that someone has your back. Trust is an environment where individuals can be their best selves and encourage others to do the same.