District Vision and Mission Statements
and Excellence Through Equity Commitments
District Vision Statement
Our vision is to maximize the resources of our schools, homes, and communities in a shared and
collaborative effort to provide a strong foundation that nurtures every student’s academic and
personal growth in their journey toward becoming a successful, confident, competent and
self-respecting young person.
District Mission Statement - - declaration of our purpose
Our mission is to ensure all of our students complete our academic programs ready to succeed
and thrive in high school, postsecondary education, and engage productively in increasingly
challenging and diverse local, regional, national and global communities.
We will assure that every student, regardless of background, is provided access to resources,
supports, relevant learning experiences and curricula that nurtures their confidence and academic
growth.
Fundamental to this assurance will be inclusive learning communities in our schools where the
equal value and inherent dignity of every student is honored and sense of belonging is promoted
and sustained.
Excellence Through Equity Commitment Statement
It is in our common shared interest that each and every one of our children, regardless of
racial/ethnic background or economic condition or other dimension of identity or difference,
receives learning opportunities and supports that promote increasingly high levels of
achievement. We seek to continuously cultivate our students’ untapped passions and potential for
learning in their school experiences with us.
Our belief is based on our shared commitment to ensure that every student receives what they
need when they need it to maximize their success while we actively eliminate institutional
barriers in district and school policies and practices that limit or deny these opportunities.
To Achieve Educational Equity, We Commit To:
* Raising the measured achievement of all students while systematically narrowing the
opportunity gap between student groups.
* Eliminating any disproportionate over-representation of students identified by
race/ethnicity, poverty, or gender in special education, discipline referrals and
suspensions, and under-representation in gifted-enrichment programs, or other advanced
learning experiences.
* Regularly gathering and using disaggregated district-wide, school level and individual
student level quantitative and qualitative data to inform our decisions.
In Order to Achieve Educational Equity and Opportunity for Every Student We Will:
* Create and sustain physically and emotionally safe and supportive schools with
welcoming and inclusive cultures that positively value and support the diversity of the
community we serve.
* Regularly review and revise policies, procedures, programs, and staff professional
learning opportunities to promote educational equity and improve student learning.
* Actively engage and partner with students, staff, families and community members, who
reflect our district’s increasingly diverse demographics, to assist us in informing our
decisions.
* Provide every student with equitable access to the best of what our school system has to offer.
- caring, committed and competent educators, support staff and administrators;
- relevant and necessary support services provided through differentiated human
- and material capital resource allocation;
- engaging learning environments supported by a high quality and relevant
- curriculum; and
- high interest and accessible co-curricular activities.
* Employ a recruitment, employment, support and retainment process, considerate of our
communities’ diversity and develop highly skilled and culturally responsive personnel.
* Provide support for ongoing personal and professional learning that strengthens all of our
employees’ knowledge and skills for supporting the needs of all students and viewing
their own decisions, practices and policies through an equity-informed lens.
* Provide curricula, learning resources and assessments that mirror the diversity of our
students and staff, and reflect our understanding and appreciation of culture, class,
language, ethnicity, poverty, ability and other differences that contribute to the success of
our society and value the uniqueness of every student and staff member.
* Establish, build and sustain a guiding school district and community coalition, with
internal organizational structures that provide productive guidance and support to the
district’s equity-focused efforts.
Board Approved 09.27.2022