All children enter the world as self-directed learners. Other students model self-directed behaviors and help classmates who initially find it difficult. CIS is a community. As in all communities, relationships among students develop for different reasons. Some students share interests or similar abilities.
Some students forge relationships by helping one another.
Still other students work together in the classroom or play together on the soccer field. Consequently, social development at CIS is not a product of a child's age or peer group. It is the product of a rich web of relationships among students who interact daily in their multi-age classes. Through this interaction students make friends and learn to value and work with other students of different personalities, abilities, ages, and sexes. Unlike many public and independent schools, CIS does not ask parents to commit to a routine schedule for this extended day use or charge parents additional fees for this service.