Quality Public Education for students means:
- Students have excellent teachers who can identify the individual learning needs of all students with intelligence and compassion, who can inspire joy and wonder in learning, and who pay attention to developing a student’s unique talents, skills, and gifts.
- Students learn within a safe and caring environment where they are respected and valued regardless of ability, race, or faith.
- Expectations are high for all students, and students are well-supported in meeting those expectations.
- Students experience success in learning at school, become excited about learning, and complete high school. They graduate as life-long learners, resilient and flexible in the face of rapid change.
- Students study a well-rounded curriculum that includes the fundamentals of literacy (both reading and writing) and numeracy, environmental knowledge, citizenship, technological skills, health and fitness, life skills, and cultural understanding and respect. Through their studies they gain competencies in the skills of critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and communication.
Quality Public Education for teachers means:
- Teachers are given the time to consider each student’s learning needs and the appropriate resources or supports to respond to them. These resources and supports include timely access to testing for identified students, a reasonable class size, additional assistance in the classroom if necessary, access to the expertise of a teacher-librarian and a well stocked library, up-to-date technology, strong leadership by their principal, and professional development related to meeting the needs of their students and their own passions.
- Teachers are recognized and respected by trustees, the administration, parents, students, and the public for their professionalism, expertise, and committment to “our” children.
Quality Public Education for parents means:
- Parents understand the crucial role they play in shaping their children’s attitudes toward learning and school.
- Parents receive regular and clear communication about their children’s status as learners, including areas for improvements and strengths to celebrate.
- Parents are given a genuine opportunity to advise on the direction and policy of their children’s schools and to share their “on the ground” experiences with school administrators and trustees.
Quality Public Education for the community means:
- The Board seeks out the priorities of the community for public education and works to set these priorities as the directions under which the Superintendent operates.
- The future community will be composed of people who are respectful of all races and ages and of property.
- The future community will be served by people with excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), by those who are technologically and numerically literate, by those who have the desire and skill to solve problems in whatever walk of life they find themselves, by those who understand the importance of the environment and social justice, by those who are using their gifts and talents in a productive way, and by those are happy to participate in society respectfully to make the world a better place.
