One of Hawk Hill's founding principles is prioritizing happy facilitators for the  long-term health and sustainability of our community.

Our primary focus is on how we can best support the kids developing in ways that will support a fulfilling life, now and into the future.

Some of the ways we do this:

• Caring about and for each kid and each other,  appreciating each kid’s uniqueness, moment to moment and as they develop over time..

• Tracking and checking in with individual kids - what are they engaged in and with whom, what they are interested in or curious about, learning to recognize signs of when they need support, helping them articulate what they need, when they are struggling with something.

• Supporting kids in forming their own opinions, in being more flexible and fluid, in part by not being dogmatic or rigid about pretty much anything and everything. And supporting them in navigating others having different opinions, different ways of operating, different needs, and so on. We see that individuality and togetherness can, and must, be seen as a both-and, not an either-or. We share our beliefs and perspectives as our beliefs and perspectives, while being sensitive to the inherent power dynamic as adults that makes kids susceptible to taking our beliefs and perspectives as fact. 

• Supporting kids facing challenges of all kinds and working things out themselves, helping them learn to ask for support when they need it, knowing when to leave them alone to work it out themselves, when to get involved, and what that involvement might look like.