All students build and develop their emotional and social skills, so they are well-balanced and empowered to achieve holistic excellence both inside and outside the classroom.

Through a diverse and accessible curriculum, all AAS students exercise agency and agility throughout their learning process so that they each engage in meaningful and authentic learning.

All students develop and apply their learning through authentic and relevant experiences beyond the classroom and integrate and extend their learning with essential skills and dispositions.

The written, instructional, and assessed curriculum is grounded in AAS guiding statements and research-based best practices so that students further develop and apply their experiences, abilities, and talents to imporve the world.