The Tsuut’ina Board of Education believes that each of the following fundamental values is of equal worth and are mutually compatible. These fundamental values guide the Board, the Department of Education, its employees, and students in all aspects and activities of the department: Respect, Integrity, Equality, and Accountability. Traditional Values The Tsuut’ina Board of Education also believes in and is guided by the following seven traditional values: (a) Kindness - a capacity for caring and desire for harmony and well-being in interpersonal relationships. (b) Honesty - a necessity to act with the utmost honesty and integrity in all relationships recognizing the inviolable and inherent autonomy, dignity and freedom of oneself and others. (c) Sharing - a willingness to relate to one another with an ethic of sharing, generosity and communal consciousness and cooperation, while recognizing the interdependence and interrelatedness of all life. (d) Strength – a consciousness of the need for kindness and respect for the integrity of oneself and others, to exercise strength of character, fortitude and self-mastery in order to generate and maintain peace, harmony and well-being within oneself and in the collective community. (e) Bravery - the exercise of courage and bravery on the part of the individual so that the quality of life and inherent autonomy of oneself and others can be exercised in an atmosphere of security, peace, dignity and freedom. (f) Wisdom - the respect for that quality of knowing and gift of vision in others (and striving for the same within oneself) that encompasses the holistic view, possesses spiritual quality, and is expressed in the experiential breadth and depth of life. (g) Humility - the recognition of oneself as a sacred and equal part of the creation, and the honoring of all life, which is endowed with the same inherent autonomy, dignity, freedom and equality.