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PURPOSE:
To affirm and direct Board of
Education's
Mission Statement and Beliefs.
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ISSUE:
The Board believes that the programs,
activities and resources of the District
should be directly related to the Board of
Education's Mission Statement and Beliefs.
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STATEMENT:
Our mission is to educate each student
to succeed through: |
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EXPECTATIONS OF EXCELLENCE; |
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SAFE WORKING AND LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS; |
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RESPECT AND DIVERSITY; AND |
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CARING AND KNOWLEDGEABLE
STAFF MEMBERS
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Beliefs of the Christina Board of Education:
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All children can and all children must
learn and achieve at high levels when they
are entrusted to our educators.
Anything short of striving to attain this is
a breach of our professional and moral
responsibility; |
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We must aspire to a trajectory of high
expectations to which we hold ourselves, all
our employees, all our parents, and all our
students; |
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Safe and orderly learning environments
are critical to support student achievement; |
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Our teachers must demonstrate the
ability and the desire to educate each child
at a high level, but our school system has
an obligation to quantify and specify the
nature of work our teachers are to do.
Without that clarity, we will fail. |
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Everyone must be held accountable
through regular and multiple uses of student
performance data; |
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We have a responsibility to enable
children to develop positive and healthy
behaviors and attitudes around issues of
racial, socioeconomic, ethnics, religious,
familial, gender, and other diversity; |
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Equity and excellence in tandem are
paramount. We also believe that equity
without excellence is nothing more than
tokenism and excellence without equity is
nothing more than privilege; |
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High performing students need to be
challenged just as much as all other
children; |
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Every Christina School District employee
and volunteer is an educator. Our
educators have a huge capacity to change
lives for the better - and our young people
will rise to the expectations we place on
them; |
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Public education will not survive
without public support and that our goal for
the Christina School District to go from good to great
will require commitment to
hard work, focus, intensity, and investment; |
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Parents/Guardians play an important and
influential role in the educational success
of a child. We must frequently invite
and strongly encourage their valuable
contributions; |
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The Board of Education, Christina School
District Educators, and Parent/Guardians
must work as a team. When we all work
together, we will better enable students to
achieve more and at a faster pace. |
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