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14 Our staff models appreciation and respect for diversity and endeavors to provide a curriculum rich in multiculturalism. Age- appropriate lessons and activities are incorporated throughout the School. Younger students learn about and celebrate traditions from many cultures. For older students, outreach and connections with people from other schools, organizations, and countries are an integral part of the curriculum. The School provides tuition assistance to help reduce socioeconomic barriers that might limit access to a CFS education. At least 20% of students annually receive financial support up to 90% of tuition, a total budgetary outlay that exceeds three quarters of a million dollars (and 10% of tuition revenue). Teaching and Learning At Carolina Friends, learning is dynamic, experiential, and interactive, fostered by a 9:1 student - teacher ratio. Students encounter open -ended questions, undertake original projects of real relevance, explore the natural world, and immerse themselves in service learning. In doing so, they build impressive powers of critical, creative, and independent thinking and expression. It is an exceptional education shaped by a clear set of beliefs: a commitment to Quaker values, a love of children, and a sense of hope for the communities, local and global, they will soon lead and serve. It is learning with a purpose, it is learning in nature, it is learning in the territory of ideas, it is learning in relationship, it is learning that is global and experiential, it is learning that is empowered, it is learning with a sense of high and hopeful expectation. At Carolina Friends, we believe that curriculum at its best: • builds on the primacy and the integrity of relationships; • addresses the "whole child ", with attention to developmentally appropriate cognitive, creative, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical needs and opportunity; • recognizes and nurtures a variety of modes of learning within a rich academic context; • encourages active engagement in a process of exploration that develops skills, values; and confidence; • emphasizes connections between disciplines, fields of study, and units; • empowers students gradually to make choices related to their own learning, to experiment, and to develop more fully the habits and skills necessary for lifelong learning; • reflects, even highlights, the diversity of our society and our global community; • incorporates service in to the daily experience of students; • affords opportunities for quiet reflection, individually and collectively, and for responsible stewardship; ® integrates the deliberate interaction with the natural environment which our setting provides into the academic program; 3