Wisdom Compass & Caring Community Learning
Clarity
Courage
Courtesy
Stewardship
VALUES IN ACTION
Eight values. One developmental caring-community strand.
The Wisdom Compass gives Clarwyn one shared language for thought, conduct, quality and contribution. Caring Community Learning helps learners practise the relational and ethical capacities that allow those values to become lived habits rather than wall language.
HOW VALUES BECOME DAILY PRACTICE
- Eight Compass values
- Developmental caring-community sequence
- Reflection and repair
- Evidence through action
- MCC-informed resources
Eight Compass values
Developmental caring-community sequence
Reflection and repair
Evidence through action
MCC-informed resources
THE EIGHT VALUES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT
How the Compass and Caring Community Learning progress by stage
Clarity, Curiosity, Courage, Courtesy
Think and communicate clearly; ask and explore; try difficult work and seek help; show grace and respect.
Integrity, Craftsmanship, Mastery, Stewardship
Work honestly; revise carefully; practise and improve; care for people, spaces, resources and the wider world.
Caring Community Learning
Foundation: belonging and feelings language. Grades I-II: empathy, friendship, fairness and repair. Grades III-V: perspective, inclusion, peer belonging and responsibility. Grades VI-VII: identity, healthy relationships, ethical judgement, leadership and the common good.
What it is not
Not a behaviour points system, popularity award, personality label, separate board subject or promise of perfect conduct.
HOW VALUES ARE EVIDENCED
Everyday conduct, adult modelling and carefully integrated resources
Evidence in ordinary life
Honest source use, respectful disagreement, careful revision, fair contribution, repair after harm and care for shared tools are stronger evidence than slogans.
Adult expectations
Adults model the same language and are accountable for clarity, courtesy, integrity, craftsmanship and stewardship in teaching, feedback and relationships.
Making Caring Common in practice
Selected Making Caring Common resources enrich age-appropriate learning about empathy, fairness, belonging, healthy relationships and the common good.
RESEARCH & PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP
Making Caring Common
In partnership with Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, through the Caring Schools Network.
Making Caring Common resources strengthen Caring Community Learning, Mentor Circle, Adult-to-Student Relationship Mapping, student voice and the continuous review of Every Child Known.
The partnership supports Clarwyn’s own approach to care, belonging and trusted relationships across the school.
WHAT VALUES-LED CULTURE SHOULD LOOK LIKE
Clear language, specific evidence, repair after harm and adults who model the standard
Language for feelings, fairness and repair
Examples of what each value looks like
Recognition based on specific evidence
Adults who model the same standards