VISION:
Transforming lives through music and education
MISSION:
Students, teachers, and musicians at Crowden create a dynamic, inclusive learning community rooted in collaborative musical and educational experiences.
Crowden Music Center
Values
- We believe that the understanding, practice, and study of music enriches the quality of life, nourishes the human spirit, and fosters the growth of intellect, creativity, and character.
- We believe that the drive to learn is an innate human quality. We encourage curiosity, discovery, and engagement through an active learning process.
- We believe in the power of interpersonal communications, and actively practice and teach skills of listening, empathy, and collaborative effort.
- We value an inclusive community of students, parents, faculty, and supporters, celebrating differences of race, culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
The Crowden School
Values
- We instill students with self-confidence, adaptability, maturity, critical thinking, and perspective to sustain their continued development and personal fulfilment throughout their lives.
- We value quality musical training and performance in balance with scholarly education as a core educational development of a whole person.
- We foster creative, problem solving, compassionate young people with integrity and a sense of responsibility, who enrich their communities.
- We develop collaborative classrooms and school community where each staff member, student, and family take responsibility for the collective success and well-being of all.