The nine values we teach and uphold are Compassion, Diversity, Individuality, Integrity, Self-Reflection, Responsibility, Resilience and Respect for Learning.Is the purpose of teaching practical life skills?• Self-care is an important learning at Mulberry Tree as it fosters independence. This includes brushing, washingChanging faces, changing clothes, packing/unpacking. Rather than teaching children to wipe their mouths after lunch, counselors often show children that they are mirroring to determine what needs to be done.• Life skills teach social responsibility - everyone has their own part in community activities such as cleaning classrooms, caring for pets, tidying up the mud kitchen after playing outside. Students must be encouraged to maintain our society together for a common cause and better purpose, gardening lessons should be encouraged during effective completion of community tasks (values: respect, responsibility, compassion)• Improve interpersonal relationships and effective communicationskills among peers• Develop good critical thinking and problem solving skills (value: resilience)• Teach children how to make effective decisions and learn from mistakes.
