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15 • includes assessment and feedback mechanisms that are specific, detailed, varied, individualized, and authentic explications of our expectations for our students; • is dynamic and is continually reviewed, a direct reflection of our dynamic student body and ever - evolving experience with them An end result of this educational philosophy and program is that seniors each year earn admission (and scholarships) to colleges and universities across the United States and Canada, including in 2011 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State, Duke, Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Oberlin, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Tufts, and McGill. Service to the Community and World Through the lens of our philosophy, we strive to create the conditions that nurture lifelong learning, leadership, and service. The design and implementation of our program reflect our best efforts to build in students a deepened understanding of themselves and the world in which they live, enabling them to recognize that even one person can make a difference in it. Consequently, service is a vital component of a CFS education. Early School students collect food supplies for local shelters and food banks. When they conducted an audit of trash around main campus, and learned that (counter to their expectations) the oldest students were not maintaining the cleanest campus, they assumed the responsibility of writing a letter to Upper School and presenting it at their Group Collection, promoting better stewardship. In Lower School, students have daily jobs, which rotate weekly. Several of their interest and discovery groups on Friday afternoons allow them to engage in service learning, whether that means helping with landscaping or creek maintenance, or helping to build a "storybook cafe" outside the Lower School library. All Lower School students share responsibility for the raised -bed gardens near the soccer field. Middle School students share in the maintenance of the Middle School and engage in service learning in their classes, advisee groups, service days, and Exploratorium sessions at the end of the year. They might take a cooking class that focuses on outreach, or they might work in the community greenhouse and garden; they might build picnic tables or patio /deck areas, or clear trails on and off campus; they might volunteer as tutors at nearby Forest View Elementary School; and they might participate in service at a number of community agencies during their service days. An advisee group might have a burrito sale to raise money to give holiday gifts to needy families or support the Safe Passage program in Guatemala. One of the most important parts of Middle School is the Afghan Sister Schools Partnership, in which students exchange diaries, artwork, and photographs with students at the Topchi School in Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan. Thanks to the efforts of the Afghan Sister School parents, Wednesday pizza lunches in Lower and Middle Schools allow us to raise money to send supplies to Topchi School. Classes and Exploratorium sessions invite students to create crafts that can be sold to 0