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DISTRICT  MISSION  AND
BELIEF  STATEMENT

Guiding Principles

Demonstrate integrity, honesty, and respectfulness through open communication.

Seek input from and recognize the expertise of all stakeholders in order to achieve unified community support.

Make progressive, dynamic decisions for 21st Century Learners through creativity and innovation.

Create an active learning centered environment to meet the needs of all students.

Maintain fiscal responsibility and seek new funding opportunities to enhance student learning.

Create a positive climate for everyone to attract and retain students and staff.

Make decisions based on factual information and/or measurable results.

District Vision

The District will be the premier choice for kindergarten (K) through grade twelve (12) education. District students will achieve academic and personal success in an ever changing world.

District Mission

The District will ensure effective communication, collaboration, school partnerships and state of the art facilities that support our vision for students as well as benefit all constituents.  The District's balanced budget ensures continuity of programs and empowers growth.

District Motto

"Excellence is our goal, understanding our foundation."

The District recognizes its responsibility to its students in four (4) general categories: academic, psychological, physical, and social.

Academic.  Each student is entitled to opportunity for the fullest possible development of personal academic and intellectual abilities in a learning climate conducive to such development.  This includes exceptional students who are in need of special resources for their development.  The basic skills of reading, writing, and computation are to be augmented by additional communications skills and broad exposure to aesthetic and other enriching experiences.  An emphasis in the curriculum is placed on awareness of self and community; the development of individual skills, interests, and talents; career education; and awareness of the need to care for one's environment.  Impetus is given to the program through the application of the individualized approach to instruction and learning as a means of meeting the current and projected individual and societal needs.

Psychological.  The District recognizes the fact that the individual's psychological needs are of cardinal importance in educating the whole person.  The educative process must provide the student with opportunities to understand, expand, and experience one's own self-worth.  This process is not reserved to the student personnel services but must permeate the total instructional program in and out of the classroom.  The experience of success, acceptance, and positive reinforcement, the clarification and development of values, the understanding of life roles, and the development of flexibility and decision-making skills are integral to this process.

Physical.  Each child in the school is entitled to the benefits of a basic health and safety educational program as a part of the ongoing curriculum in the District.  This program recognizes the need for physical development as a basic requirement for good health, both physical and mental.  Additionally, it includes the preparation of students for worthwhile leisure-time activities in the interest of healthful living.  In view of the foregoing, the District is dedicated to the task of providing and maintaining facilities that are adequate for the purposes of physical comfort and development.

Social.  The District recognizes the needs of individual students in the areas of civic and social responsibility and community awareness.  It is considered a task of the District to assist the students in developing an understanding of their role in family and community relationships, and the importance of their contribution to the maintenance of those relationships.  Finally, the District shall maintain its effort in reinforcing the concept for the students that family and community relationships have the potential for providing meaningful educational experiences equal to or greater than those provided by the District.

Adopted:  date of Manual adoption

LEGAL REF.:
Arizona State Constitution, Article XI, Section 1