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.

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.

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.

 

* 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