Mission

• Empowering learners through meaningful educational opportunities that reflect the knowledge, skills and experiences needed for future success as engaged citizens.

Motto

• Empowering learners for life.

Vision

• Meaningful educational learning opportunities must:

  • Foster student passion for learning.

  • Celebrate and reward curiosity, creativity, innovation and experimentation.

  • Close opportunity and equity gaps to ensure high levels of achievement and expectations for all learners.

  • Nurture the “whole child” and empower learners to grow socially, emotionally and physically, showing respect for self, others and community.

  • Embrace individual differences and support learners in building their understanding of cultural awareness, diversity and inclusion.

  • Invest in high quality staff who are lifelong learners, effective collaborators and instructors.

  • Create relevant and authentic learning experiences that extend beyond the text and classroom and provide real life application.

  • Allocate resources, including facilities, to enhance learning and teaching and achieve the mission.

Core Values

• These values will guide our behaviors and actions:

  • Respect and Responsibility

  • Agility and Resilience

  • Collaboration and Engagement

    • Equity and Inclusion

  • Innovation and Creativity

  • Continuous Improvement and Commitment to Excellence

  • Empathy and Compassion

Long-Range Goals and Critical Strategies

• Student Growth and Achievement Goal

  • Ensure high levels of learning for all students.

  • Strategies that need attention to achieve this goal at a higher level:

    • Address opportunity and equity gaps for all subgroups of students

    • Develop a standards-based monitoring and reporting process

    • Explore implementation of Full-day Kindergarten

• Learning Environment and Culture Goal

  • Cultivate a safe, secure and inclusive learning environment that is responsive to the evolving needs of each student.

  •  Strategies that need attention to achieve this goal at a higher level:

    • Ensure consistent integration of social and emotional learning with the core curriculum

    • Provide student-centered learning opportunities that ensure personalized avenues for engagement and agency

    • Implement a culturally responsive approach to student learning

• High-Quality Staff Goal

  • Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional personnel for all positions.

  • Strategies that need attention to achieve this goal at a higher level:

    • Provide a personalized professional learning environment that includes mentoring, coaching and collaboration

    • Diverse Workforce

• Family and Community Partnerships Goal

  • Build a strong support system by engaging families, partners and the greater community to meet the needs of all students.

  • Strategies that need attention to achieve this goal at a higher level:

    • Cultivate opportunities to engage families and the community as partners with the development and articulation of authentic student learning experiences

• Stewardship of Resources Goal

  • Develop and sustain effective, efficient and equitable use of all resources to optimize the operations for improved student achievement and fiscal responsibility.

  • Strategies that need attention to achieve this goal at a higher level:

    • Maintain facilities to provide safe, clean, flexible and child-friendly learning environments for students

Each goal will have a set of indicators, measures and targets to be developed at a later date to ensure it is a SMART Goal.