Pursue+Growth+and+Learning

**At Sigourney, We Think It's Important To Grow.**
**It's important to constantly challenge and stretch yourself and not be stuck in a place where you don't feel like you are growing or learning.** **We believe that inside every person is more potential than even the she/he realizes. Our goal is to help people unlock that potential. But it has to be a joint effort: you have to want to challenge and stretch yourself in order for it to happen.** **We grow because we take on new challenges, and we face even more new challenges because we're growing. It's an endless cycle, and it's a good thing: it's the only way for a person to survive. But it can also feel risky, stressful, and confusing at times.** **Sometimes, it may seem that new problems crop up as fast as we solve the old ones (sometimes faster!), but that just means that we're moving -- that we're getting better and stronger. Anyone who wants to compete with us has to learn the same things, so problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we've gotten better.** **Yet no matter how much better we get, we'll always have hard work to do, we'll never be done, and we'll never "get it right."** **That may seem negative, but it's not: we'll do our best to "get it right," and then do it again when we find out that things have changed. That is the cycle of growth, and like it or not, that cycle won't stop.** **It's hard... but if we weren't doing something hard, then we'd be dying. The only reason we aren't swamped by our competition is because what we do is hard, and we do it better than anyone else. If it ever gets too easy, then start looking for a tidal wave of competition to wash us away.** **It may seem sometimes like we don't know what we're doing. And it's true: we don't. That's a bit scary, but you can take comfort in knowing that nobody else knows how to do what we're doing either. At Sigourney is that the devil is in the details. And that's where we're breaking new ground.** **So there are no experts in what we're doing. Except for us: we are becoming experts as we do this. The best expertise they can bring is expertise at learning and adapting and figuring new things out -- helping the school grow, and in the process, they will also be growing themselves.**