2. • Home -Providing a space thatfosters identity, self-love, and family.
• Culture -creating a sense of Filipino pride and identity throughcultural
education.
• Service-serving and educatingthe Filipino youth as a community.
3. Mission Statement
• Filipino Cultural School strives to educate the youth about their Filipino and Filipino American
heritage through dance, music, language, history, and lifestyle classes .FCS also seeks to create
sense of Filipino pride andidentity, while creating a space ofcommunity through relationships
and through discovering one’s identity.
4. Howimportant is cultural diversity at your school
• Attendinga school with a diverse studentbody can help prepare your
child for citizenshipin multiculturaldemocracy.
5. Cultures are not created overnight or by pen and planningalone. Jerald (2006) argues
thatcultureis born from an organization’s vision, beliefs, values, and mission. Starting
your mission is significant,but only a small part of your effort.Culturedevelops and
grows up through an accumulationof actions, traditions and symbols, ceremonies and
rituals that are closely alignedwith thatvision.
6. An effective school operationalizes its mission by integrating academic press as part of building a
positive culture. School culture isan important part of the work that educators needed to do if
students are going to achieve at high levels. As hasbeen noted before, teachers matter, and what
they do matter most. Yes, teacher need to have instructional skillsand anunderstanding of their
content area. But we argue that there is something else needed, and that is systematic
implementation of procedure thatbuild the culture of school such that students, and every other
stakeholder in the educational organization, become bicultural.
7. The culture of theschool is not somethingthatcan be leftto chance, nor it can be
seen at somethingbeyond our control. We have duty to buildpositive,
responsive, and dynamic culture.In doing so, we can help allstudents.
