District Vision

“Because we believe that all students can and will learn, and that all teachers can and will teach, we envision an educational setting which encompasses the following characteristics.”

A learning Community

• Knowledge- Application Work – Organization
• Persistent innovation
• Continuous improvement
• Challenging opportunities
• Living and learning productively within their traditions, heritage and the mainstream culture
• Integration of academic and community life

Accountability

• Teaching causes learning
• All students attain curriculum mastery
• Fixed accountability for results by student, teachers and principals
• Teachers are leaders of students
• Principals are leaders of teachers
• Teachers and principals ensure students have opportunities for success

Personal Values

• Life-long learning, reasoning, decisionmaking, and problem solving
• Identifying and discovering how personal values are reflected in the values of their culture and mainstream society
• Interpersonal skills: Cooperating, collaborating, serving, leading and negotiating
• Responsibility, self-esteem, self-management, sociability and integrity
• Community Service