The mission of the Riverside Public Schools is to provide for each student a challenging education which promotes academic excellence, encourages creativity, develops critical thinking, and fosters respect for self, community, and the environment.
Five Imperatives:
1. Academic Excellence
1.a. Each student will experience an exemplary, dynamic academic program that promotes the following dispositions:
curiosity, meta-cognition (thinking about one’s thinking), truth-seeking,
strategic thinking, skepticism, and life-long learning.
1.b. Each student will be academically proficient (relative to local, state and national standards), will make appropriate academic progress (relative to historic trend and student potential), and will be academically successful (relative to other high performing districts – local, state and national).
2. Creativity
2.a. Each student will focus on the process of forming original ideas through discovery, exploring, resourcefulness, effort, synthesizing and imagining.
2.b. Each student will successfully face the challenges and uncertainties of risk-taking.
3. Critical Thinking
3.a. Using a variety of strategic thinking structures, each student will be:
open-minded…inquisitive…reflective…purposeful…an effective communicator
3.b. Each student will seek truth and understanding through strategic and authentic problem solving, decision making, and skeptical processing to grapple with meaningful real life situations.
4. Respect for Self, Community and the Environment
4.a. Each student shows high regard for the dignity of oneself, others, property and the environment.
4.b. Each student believes that she/he has exceptional value.
5. Good Fiscal Stewardship of Resources
5.a. Each student will receive a challenging education funded by good stewardship of resources.
Revised by Board of Education on 05/16/06
Statement Of Beliefs And Values
The following statements express the belief of the District 96 Public Schools that education is the shared responsibility of students, families, schools, and community:
- We believe each participant in the school community has rights, deserves respect, and shares accountability for achieving the academic and social goals of the school district while maintaining its financial integrity.
- We believe each student should become a lifelong learner capable of functioning in an ever-changing technological multicultural world.
- We believe each student is unique and should be offered challenging programs adapted to meet diverse physical, intellectual, social, and emotional needs.
- We believe each student achieves best in a safe and nurturing environment.
- We believe each student should be provided with opportunities to attain his or her full potential.
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