SAND is a collaborative community that maximizes the experiences of all children with symptoms of disability and accelerates their growth.

• Everyone is committed to ensuring that each child achieves success.
• Children have access to a general education curriculum that has high expectations and standards in order to help them and others build a brighter future.
• Expectations, duties, and obligations are all clearly understood by all staff, students, children, and families.
• Everyone collaborates to set and attain the highest academic and behavioural standards possible, as well as to be held accountable for data-driven outcomes.
• Participant-centered, culturally responsive, and collaborative special education approaches focus on the student’s or child’s strengths and needs.
• Parents, students, and children are heard and cherished.
• The expertise, experience, and competence of all employees are regarded as professionals.