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How is discipline handled at RCLS?

The short answer is that discipline is handled in an atmosphere of grace that encourages respect, repentance, and resilience. The longer answer is that discipline is handled in a positive learning environment that is shaped, in part, by two related tools: a responsive classroom and a common language. Read more to learn how school and home can partner together. It's all in the Word(s)!

RCLS has always been more than a school to Ashton Andersen and her family. "From an early age," she says, "I was immersed in the positive, creative, and caring environment that characterizes the school.... The learning environment of my youth impacts me to this day."

Success in school is not just about reading and math. It is also about knowing how to learn and how to get along well with others. Researchers have found that students too often leave school with skills in the areas of math, reading, and technology, but without adequate social and emotional intelligence to complement these skills so that they may be successful in the work force. RCLS recognizes its students’ need for Social-Emotional Learning and seeks to meet this need, in part, through Second Step, a curriculum designed to help students develop social-emotional skills that will benefit them in the RCLS classroom and beyond.

We spend a lot of time and resources at RCLS to ensure that the whole child is educated, so we are thrilled to hear about all the ways our students extend that education, on and off campus. Recently, we learned that five of RCLS's middle-school students took their learning all the way to the state fair.

This school year, we’re charging our school community to “Be Bold”:

Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go (Joshua 1:9b, ESV).

As part of our year-long reflection on these words, RCLS has adopted a ministry theme logo. We are thrilled to introduce RCLS alumna and current parent, Mrs. Kelly Hicks, as the artist of this year’s  logo. A graphic designer, Kelly loves that she got to design a logo for the Bold theme, which she hopes will encourage her own boys to be Bold in Christ. Read on to be inspired by her expression of the biblical principle that God is with us. We may Be Bold, indeed!