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Mission & Vision

Mission

Equity, excellence, and success for all through a high-quality, theme-based education.

Vision

CREC Schools will work with families to ensure success for all students. We will eliminate opportunity gaps; provide rigorous, relevant, and engaging instruction; and guarantee schools where students feel connected, achieve their goals, and are empowered to positively impact the world in which they live.

Core Values

  • Expect Excellence

  • Act with Courage

  • Demand Equity

  • Embrace Collaboration

CREC Mission, Vision, & Core Values with images of staff and students

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather exists upon the ancestral territory and Indigenous villages of the Tunxis, Sicoag, Pocumtuc, Wangunk, Poquonook, Podunk, Quinnipiac, Massacoe, and Hammonasset Peoples who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. Through dispossession and disease, colonial powers encroached upon their homelands and reservations.


We also acknowledge the federally recognized tribal nations that exist in Connecticut today: the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and Mohegan Tribe, and the state recognized tribal nations: Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nation, Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, and Schaghticoke Indian Tribe. We support their sovereignty as tribal nations now and into the future, while also understanding their communities can exist beyond the strict bounds of Tribal Nationhood.


*Updated January 2026 in partnership with Akomawt Educational Initiative and The Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS).