Mission and Values
Vision: In our school, everyone belongs. We are compassionate. We love learning, and we learn together. We are a community.
Mission and Goals: Students achieve academic, personal, and social goals through a challenging educational program. The environmental focus encourages students to participate in creating and maintaining healthy environments for learning and living. Students benefit from a sense of belonging, purposeful learning, and opportunities to develop as leaders, stewards, and responsible citizens.
Beliefs and Practices
Beliefs and Practices
High levels of learning happen for all students when we come together as a Professional Learning Community to refine, adjust, and respond to students' strengths and needs based on data. We utilize the Plan, Do, Study, Act Learning Cycle.
We commit to shared leadership and believe that our collective ideas, efforts, and ongoing learning make us better. We labor together.
Students achieve academic, personal, and social goals when they participate actively in challenging, meaningful, and engaging projects and activities.
Students thrive in an educational community that involves parents, local businesses, and organizations as partners in teaching and learning.
Stewardship and service-learning provide students with positive community mentors, opportunities to mentor others, an introduction to a variety of careers, and the rewarding experience of contributing to their community and world. Students learn what it means to be a Changemaker: empathy, kindness, and caring.
Curriculum and instruction have lasting significance when organized thematically around enduring concepts and ideas that engage students in investigation, creativity, discovery, problem-solving, and decision-making related to real-life issues and events.
Students need meaningful opportunities to communicate in various forms, work as members of a team, and select and use appropriate tools and technologies for their projects and learning.