 Character education and service learning are integral parts of life at Norwood and have been so since the school's founding in 1952.Frances Marsh started Norwood on the very idea that a school should stand for and teach a core set of values.She felt strongly that a school has a responsibility to help students “gain an intelligent awareness of the world around them; a sense of their own worth; and a recognition of the obligation to share that worth with society and the community in which they live.” Norwood has a “Value of the Month” curriculum and begins every month with a lesson about character.