Character Development

Integrating personal development skills into everything we teach at Oak Forest Academy, we strive to build tomorrow’s leaders, through characteristics such as integrity, honesty and responsibility. As your child’s trusted caregivers and educators, it is our duty to teach more than academic subjects. We have the unique position of being able to mold future citizens while supporting and promoting your family’s values. We believe that a strong community starts with committed and caring members and, through our efforts, we seek to promote and build positive characteristics in our students that prove to be impactful to surrounding places and people.

We believe the development of character through learning, and most importantly applying, strong values deserves greater emphasis in our early education system. Therefore, we have incorporated Conscious Discipline, evidence-based social and emotional learning, based in scientific and developmental research. It is recognized by SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). Conscious Discipline creates a compassionate culture and facilitates an intentional shift in adult understanding of behavior via the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model. It then provides specific brain-friendly, research-backed strategies for responding to each child's individual needs with wisdom. This highly effective approach is proven to increase self-regulation, sense of safety, connection, empathy and intrinsic motivation in both children and adults.

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