Compilation of School Mission & Vision Statements

Mission: To provide a rigorous, collaborative and relevant academic program emphasizing an innovative, problem-based curriculum that develops literacy in the sciences, mathematics, and the arts, thus cultivating critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and compassionate citizens, who are able to thrive in our increasingly complex and technological communities.

Mission: Our learning community ignites students’ curiosity – illuminates their passions – builds their world-changing abilities – explores deeply a multitude of fields – fosters collaboration and equality – supports students’ brave and confident pursuit of their ideas, dreams, and projects

Mission: To prepare students to become first class citizens with a world class education. Key components enabling us to stand out as one of the great high schools of our region include: academic prowess; numerous AP and Honors courses; Digital High School status; cutting-edge technology; athletic success; and powerful co-curricular programs

Mission:  Our approach to education and learning is centered on project-based learning, the smart use of technology to aid in exploration and performance, and the development of a school culture that promotes trust, respect, and responsibility. The New Tech Network (NTN) is centered on a systemic holistic change that is driven by: culture that empowers, teaching that engages, and technology that enables. The three “R’s” at a NTN school are Relationships, Relevance, and Rigor.

At NTN schools students are the center of the learning activity, not teachers. Students work together to construct meaning and develop a shared understanding of high level concepts. Students are accountable to themselves, their peers, and their teachers.

Mission: Learning is continuous. Learners are able to learn anytime, anywhere. No longer is learning confined to a classroom: with their digital tools, learners can always engage in their local and global communities.

Learning is relevant. Learners identify and solve problems that matter now. No longer is the real world segregated from the classroom: our learners engage in rich learning experiences that develop their agency to change the world.

Learning is adaptive. Learners manage their own learning. No longer is one form of engagement mandated: with twenty-first century competencies and individual learning plans, learners discover how to use their skills to shape the future.

Vision: The School of the Future is about redefining the “norm”. It is about answering the question, “What if?” And it is about demonstrating what learning must look like in the 21st century for all students. We envision an empowered and connected community where learning is continuous, relevant and adaptive. We envision a school that works to close the technology gap in urban education and provides our learners with the skills and competencies necessary for problem solving and lifelong learning. We envision a post-secondary school opportunity for each one of our learners that facilitates continued education and the achievement of personal goals.

Mission: Marymount School seeks to educate young women who continue to question, risk, and grow—young women who care, serve, and lead—young women prepared to challenge, shape, and change the world.

Learning Community Mission: Our school has an unrelenting focus on generating learning. Its focus is on fulfilling the potential of its students through engaging each student in planning, reviewing, reflecting and re-shaping their learning. The approach to learning is driven by problem solving and independent inquiry with special attention given to rigorous leading edge science and mathematics. Students engage with a comprehensive curriculum, presented through an interdisciplinary framework by multidisciplinary teams of educators. The ASMS continually updates it pedagogical and operational practices with students, teachers and parents by integrating innovative ICT (technology) and multiple technologies into the curriculum, teaching and administrative practices.

Vision: To provide an ICT (technology) rich learning environment that supports an innovative and inquiry oriented curriculum. Our students are engaged in personalized and authentic learning of emerging, innovations-oriented sciences and mathematics.

Professional Community Mission: Our school maintains an unrelenting focus on the professional learning of all staff to strengthen valued outcomes for all learners. ASMS staff have access to professional learning that:

• strengthens evidence based practice,
• supports them in being responsive to diverse learners and the evolving challenges of the 21st Century,
• builds their capacity to support educators in developing innovative approaches to senior secondary schooling and
• engages them with DECS policy and curriculum development and implementation processes.

Professional learning takes many forms, is deeply embedded in the daily activities of staff and is the key driver of innovation, development and transformation in science and mathematics education. As a school we recognize the importance of health and well-being of all staff in achieving our goals.

Mission: A unique environment celebrating individual growth, mutual respect and cooperation. Empowering children and adults to become enthusiastic and creative independent and lifelong learners. A place we all call home.

Mission: Working in partnership with each family and the community, our mission is to educate responsible lifelong learners so that each student possesses the skills, knowledge, creativity, sense of self-worth and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a diverse and changing world.

Vision: We will be a caring community of learners that knows and lifts every child. We will inspire joy in learning. Our schools will excel at preparing each student for his or her life journey.

• Continuous Improvement We continuously develop new ways to measure and assess our effectiveness and the quality of our programs and services. Ongoing communication among students, staff and families and the community results in new learning and improvement.
• Personalized Learning We commit to knowing each student an individual, providing meaningful and appropriate learning experiences in a caring environment.
• Optimum Use of Resources We value every person, place and thing as a resource for building our learning community. We maintain accountability and responsibility while encouraging the creative and flexible use of these resources to support learning.
• Integration We create and strengthen relationships that support learning. The interrelationships among our programs, services, people and other resources are vital to the success of our learning community.
• Diversity We seek ways to learn about and understand the uniqueness of each person. We need differences to enrich our relationships, our community and our quest for continuous improvement.

Mission: People don’t start learning when they enter a school building or stop when they exit. Learning is natural. Everyone learns all the time. PSII recognizes this truth, supporting learners in the pursuit of their personal passions wherever and whenever that learning needs to take place. The school is a gathering place where ideas can be shared and where strong face-to-face relationships become the foundation for truly personalized learning.

Portrait of a graduate:

• Students, with a growth mindset, exhibit an entrepreneurial attitude towards learning. They are persistent and courageous in taking on new challenges and willing to risk making mistakes on the road to new learning.
• Students think deeply about content and concepts using critical thinking and problem solving skills. They posses an inquisitive mind and search for connections and deep understandings in the arts and sciences.
• Students possess a curious and creative mind which uses various resources to produce expressions of imagination. Through creation, they develop an appreciation for the artistic expressions of others.
• Students collaborate with diverse groups of people using active listening skills, leadership skills, and utilizing personal strengths to advance the goals of the group. They effectively communicate to a variety of audiences in speech, in writing, digitally, visually, and in live performances.
• Students understand the global issues faced by humanity today and have an appreciation for the arts, cultures, and civilizations throughout time and around the world.
• Students use the design thinking process to create innovative learning projects and products.
• Students demonstrate a command of media and information technology through the creation of digital artifacts. They access and evaluate digital resources and maintain on positive online reputation by practicing the habits of digital citizenship.

Mission: To educate our students to become independent thinkers and problem solvers. It is our goal to empower each student to meet the challenges of tomorrows emerging world. The District will provide a safe, nurturing environment in which individual and civic responsibility is fostered, diversity is respected and all students are enabled to realize their full potential. In order to accomplish this mission, every effort is made to provide our students with the necessary coursework and assistance so that they may reach their full potential. 

Mission: Living to learn, learning to live.

Mission: Our purpose is to prepare, engage and inspire our students to be their best in a quickly changing global community.

Vision: The school is a place where exploration, creativity, and imagination make learning exciting and where all learners aspire to reach their dreams.

We Value:

• Collaboration and engagement with students, parents and our communities. Our successes are not possible without these contributions.
• Trust and mutual respect among all of our education stakeholders.
• Inclusion and diversity within our schools.
• Citizenship and recognize our central role in guiding students to understand their responsibilities and their place in the world.
• Leadership in all places – everyone in our Division has the potential to be a leader.
• Excellence, innovation and risk-taking.

We Believe:

• Learning is the foundation of all we do.
  Integrity and fairness are key pillars for student growth.
• That confident, adaptable and resilient students are successful students.

We are:

• A caring and compassionate organization – guided by what’s in the best interest of our students.
• Committed to providing safe and caring places for all students to learn.

We Embrace:   Open and honest communication.

Vision: To become nationally and internationally recognized as a center of excellence in the sciences.

Mission: Working with like-minded peers, expert teachers, and taking advantage of world-class facilities, students at John Monash Science School will be encouraged to perform to the highest academic level in order to achieve their goals. The John Monash Science School will:

• provide student engagement through innovation in a relevant and integrated curriculum and investigation-based learning approaches;
• provide pathways for high achievers pursuing Science and Mathematics into senior secondary and university studies;
• develop high quality effective teaching strategies to be shared amongst teachers throughout the state;
• and provide ongoing up-to-date knowledge in rapidly advancing areas of science.

Motto: Where the art of teaching meets the science of learning.

Our Core Principles: We believe that all students are unique with different needs, talents, strengths and aspirations and should be challenged to achieve beyond their expectations.

• We believe that all of our students are capable of developing the skills and dispositions to become better learners.
• We believe that at the heart of our school should be the idea that education is best done ‘with and by’ our students rather than ‘to and for’ our students.
• We believe that the purpose of education is preparing our students for their future.
• We believe that for the future, learning needs to happen in a variety of learning spaces (in and out of school) and through the supportive use of technology.
• We believe we need to build and organise our school to meet the diverse needs of our learners and create an experience that is personalised.
• We believe that we need the support and expertise of our whole village and more to educate our children.
• We believe that we must make our learning village a place everyone enjoys coming to. We believe at the heart of our school is a commitment to high quality teaching and continuous professional development.

Mission: To have a positive impact on the lives of young people across the region through world class professional development, innovation, collaboration, active research and school to school support

Mission: Empower young people for a life of learning both satisfying to themselves and of significant value to others.

Vision: Start with every learner and develop them as a knowledgeable and skillful self-manager through Adult to Adult discourse, challenge and critique.

Mission: To develop responsible citizens of a global society. In partnership with parents, we inspire and motivate intellectually curious students. Our small, nurturing environment supports the acquisition of a broad academic foundation with an emphasis on critical thinking, leadership skills, and the development of strong character and spiritual awareness.

Vision: A recognized leader in early childhood through 8th Grade, St. Thomas School provides an educational journey defined by a cognitively rigorous program with an emphasis on developing character, leadership, and a passion for learning and achievement.

Mission: Learning without boundaries.  Cultivating academic excellence, citizenship and personal development.

Mission: To engage a community of learners through authentic learning experiences by empowering them to be self- motivated thinkers, creators, and collaborators.

Mission:To cultivate a global perspective through academic excellence, active engagement, and development of leadership identity.  A unique learning environment providing students with the tools and experiences to contribute innovative thought and solutions to complex global challenges, and to Know, Be, and Do the work of global leadership.

• Knowing:  Attainment of specific learning outcomes guided by rigorous core content standards;
• Being:  Development of dispositions that will foster responsibility for personal leadership;
• Doing: Participation in learning through projects; internships; travel; and other relevant experiences.

Mission: Create collaborative learners capable of high quality artistic expression.

KM Perform fosters an interdisciplinary community of collaborative learners, capable of quality fine arts expression in these areas of focus: Music, Visual Art, Theatre, Creative Writing

This School for Arts and Performance provides unparalleled opportunity for both district and open enrolled students who are interested in experiencing education focused on the arts, creativity, performance and personal expression of knowledge and skills.

Vision: Learning well!

Mission: We cultivate authentic and personalized learning in a health care and research context. We inspire curiosity in a wide range of fields, study, and service by engaging problem-solvers in an interdisciplinary spectrum of opportunity. Students will master a course of study that equips them for success in health care, research, and related fields.

The High School of Health Sciences is based on the following core philosophy and beliefs:

• Learning is contextual.
• Students will be empowered to be architects of their own learning.
• Students will make connections between learning and their future endeavors.
• Student accomplishments are a result of both successes and failures.
• Learning is social, diverse, and collaborative.
• Authentic experiences help students understand their role in a global society.
• Teachers guide, facilitate, inspire, and coach.

Mission: CREST leads and inspires students within a collaborative, project-based learning environment emphasizing rigor, relevance, and relationships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Students graduate highly-motivated and fully-qualified to pursue STEM-oriented degrees at the post-secondary level.

Vision: CREST is a state of the art specialty school designed to function as a student-centered teaching and learning tool. Located at Paradise Valley High School, CREST enhances real world, multi-disciplinary learning, and provides the advantages of a comprehensive high school experience. The CREST curriculum is integrated and thematic, with high expectations for teaching and learning. Students collaborate with peers, teachers, universities, and industry experts to gain valuable experiences through practical applications of theoretical knowledge. Students learn and apply 21st Century skills as we focus on excellence in achievement.

Mission: Meeting the needs of every learner to ENGAGE, INSPIRE, and EMPOWER a community of learners in THINKING, COLLABORATING, INNOVATING, and CREATING for the future.

Vision: Prepare the most innovative leaders to collaboratively create the future.

Mission and Vision: Students will develop self-confidence and academic skills through diverse educational experiences tailored to their individual learning styles. We will do this through a project based, multi-disciplinary learning environment, where individuality and community are instilled for lifelong success, educating the whole child so that they may meet their fullest potential and become independent thinkers, lifelong learners, and effective leaders.

Mission: To enable learners to become architects of their futures, building on a foundation of scholarship, citizenship, service and integrity.

Strategic Goals:

• Ignite the passion, fuel the dreams and provide every student with a world class personal education.
• Nurture constructive partnerships that strengthen our entire community
• Maximize the community’s investment, uphold our tradition of financial stewardship and optimize the use and value of all district facilities and properties.

Core Values:

• We will become a global leader acknowledged for the finest comprehensive curriculum and instruction.
• We embrace an attitude, willingly expressed, that relishes wonder, craves knowledge, seeks meaning, loves challenge & pursues innovation.

Mission: To create a learning experience that is continuous, relevant and adaptive:

• Learners are able to learn anytime, anywhere. No longer is learning confined to a classroom: with their digital tools, learners can always engage in their local and global communities.
• Learners identify and solve problems that matter now. No longer is the real world segregated from the classroom: our learners engage in rich learning experiences that develop their agency to change the world.
• Learners manage their own learning. No longer is one form of engagement mandated: with twenty-first century competencies and individual learning plans, learners discover how to use their skills to shape the future.

Vision: The School of the Future is about redefining the “norm.” It is about answering the question, “What if?” And it is about demonstrating what learning must look like in the 21st century for all students. We envision an empowered and connected community where learning is continuous, relevant and adaptive. We envision a school that works to close the technology gap in urban education and provides our learners with the skills and competencies necessary for problem solving and lifelong learning. We envision a post-secondary school opportunity for each one of our learners that facilitates continued education and the achievement of personal goals.

Mission: We ignite and nurture an enduring spirit of scholarship, curiosity, creativity, and confidence. We value learning experientially, exhibiting kindness, and honoring diversity.

Mission: Lakeside focuses on the relationships between talented students and capable and caring teachers. We develop and nurture students’ passions and abilities and ensure every student feels known.

Each student’s curiosities and capabilities lead them to unique academic challenges that are sustained through a culture of support and encouragement. All students will find opportunities to discover and develop a passion; to hone the skills of writing, thinking, and speaking; and to interact with the world both on and off campus. Lakeside trusts that each student has effective ideas about how to maximize his or her own education, and that they will positively contribute to our vibrant learning community.

Mission: Every student leaves here with the gift of knowing how to learn.

The scaffolding that supports learning in this one-room schoolhouse is complex. But its yield is clear: a school where students, staff, and community experts mix freely, where learning is palpable and purposeful, where respect and trust are taught and practiced daily, and where self-reliance reigns.

Mission:  Learning: The treasure within.
Learning to know.     Learning to do.     Learning to live together.     Learning to be

Mission: In partnership with parents and community to challenge and engage each child by providing quality educational programs and support services in a safe, nurturing,and child-centered environment in order to prepare all students to be lifelong learners and contributing members of a global society.

Vision:

• We Envision a school district that inspires children, sparks creative and innovative thinking, celebrates diversity, and builds visionaries.
• We Seek an education that excites minds, touches spirits, challenges abilities, and prepares our children for life.
• We Believe every child should be expected to grow, stretch, evolve and embrace the challenges of the future in a global environment.

Goals:

• Each student is capable of learning and deserves to be educated and challenged to reach his/her highest potential.
• Education is the foundation for success, both in academic achievement and social emotional development.
• Within each child, we will cultivate the social awareness, self-management, and responsible decision-making skills necessary to be a contributing member of society.
• Educators, students, families, and community members should work together to support the healthy development of all students.
• The school environment should be stimulating and engaging, with opportunities for creative, collaborative, and meaningful learning experiences.
• The school environment should be safe, friendly, and nurturing, where everyone comes to learn, grow, and develop.

Mission:  “How do we learn?”    “What can we create?”    “What does it mean to lead?”

Vision: The Science Leadership Academy is an understanding-driven, project-based school where the learning is centered around the five core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection.

• Inquiry— Students ask questions that allow them to fully understand and they inquire about things they do not know.
• Research— With their resources, students research topics in depth using credible sources.
• Collaboration— Students collaborate with classmates and others to continue their spectrum of learning.
• Presentation— Students convey their thoughts, ideas, and findings through their presentations.
• Reflection— Students reflect on the work, along with successes and failures to see what they can do to improve on future work.

At SLA, learning is not just something that happens during the school day, but is a continuous process that expands beyond the four walls of the classroom into every facet of our lives.

Mission: To develop and support innovative public schools where all students develop the academic, workplace, and citizenship skills for life success.

Mission: Support the development of excellent schools based on the HTH design principles. Become a self-sustaining central organization conducting “behind the whiteboard” management practices that are as exemplary as the “in front of students” programs offered at HTH schools. Inspire and enable others in the public education community to adopt the HTH design principles and instructional practices.

Vision:

• Enact change by directly establishing and managing excellent schools. HTH currently operates three campuses of schools. As of August 2013, all three villages serve K-12. 
• Inspire others to implement HTH design principles by encouraging outsiders to visit the schools, speak with the students and teacher, and observe its design principles in practice. High Tech High schools are open and transparent settings where visitors are always welcome.  Over 2,000 visitors arrive annually from nearly every state (including eight governors) and many nations (including twenty education ministers).
• Enable others to establish schools based on the HTH design. Recognizing that it takes more than inspiration to change the paradigm of public education, HTH has modeled itself as an “open source” organization, offering institutes, residencies, and a free web-based resource center for educators.
• Develop teachers and leaders in its school network and beyond. HTH’s Teacher Credentialing Program guides scores of HTH teachers through the credentialing process each year.  The HTH Graduate School of Education opened its doors in the fall of 2007 and expands upon HTH’s professional development offerings through its Master’s of Education programs.
• Influence policy makers and thought leaders to change public education policy. By changing some of the restrictive policies that affect both HTH and other public and charter schools, HTH enhances its own ability to function while improving the system for everyone who operates within it.

Mission: To help all students acquire organized knowledge, master creative and intellectual skills, and understand ideas in ways that foster a positive self-image and lead to lifelong learning, self-sufficiency, and responsible citizenship.

Mission: We will graduate students who are accomplished in the academic skills one would expect; at ease beyond their borders; truly fluent in a second language; good writers and speakers one and all; confident because they excel in a particular passion; artists no matter their field; practical in the ways of the world; emotionally unafraid and physically fit; humble about their gifts and generous of spirit; trustworthy; aware that their behavior makes a difference in our ecosystem; great leaders when they can be, good followers when they should be; on their way to well-chosen higher education; and, most importantly, architects of lives that transcend the ordinary.

WE WILL SHARE OUR PROSPERITY with those who need it in innovative and broader-scale ways that leap the walls of our campuses.

WE WILL PROVIDE OUR FACULTY AND STAFF members a special place to pursue the science and art of teaching. We want to align the rewards of teaching more closely with the value it brings to society, provide teachers opportunities to deepen their skills and be a place where careers, in and out of the classroom, can flourish.

WE WILL ADVANCE EDUCATION by setting an example as an effective, diverse and accountable school; by continuously investing in ways to become better at what we do; and by making available our discoveries, large and small, to colleagues in the cause of education.

Mission: To seek exceptionally promising students of all backgrounds from across the nation and around the world and to educate them, through mental discipline and social experience, to develop their intellectual, moral, civic, and creative capacities to the fullest. The aim of this education is the cultivation of citizens with a rich awareness of our heritage to lead and serve in every sphere of human activity.

Harvard strives to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities.

Mission: Olin College prepares students to become exemplary engineering innovators who recognize needs, design solutions and engage in creative enterprises for the good of the world.

Aspiration: Olin College seeks to redefine engineering as a profession of innovation encompassing 1) the consideration of human and societal needs; 2) the creative design of engineering systems; and 3) the creation of value through entrepreneurial effort and philanthropy. The college is dedicated to the discovery and development of the most effective educational approaches and aspires to serve as a model for others.

Mission:  Our Idea of Excellence:

Our Vocation. The conversation between student and teacher is the heart of our school; all that we do must be born of and nourish that relationship. We are called to challenge the minds, fire the imaginations, and train the bodies of the young people who have been entrusted to us; to enlarge their spiritual lives; and to increase their capacity for mutual and self-respect. We intend to prepare them to learn confidently for the rest of their lives and to give generously and joyfully to others. We can accomplish these things only if we keep our students safe and well while they are in our charge.

Our Obligation. We must ask our young people what they believe in so they can know themselves in the world. We must give them the tools of rigorous and passionate intellectual inquiry and self-expression so they can grow. In our commitment to diversity, we must show our students how to be colleagues and friends so they can act out of respect and love. We must lead them to distinguish right from wrong and then do what is right so they can be persuasive and courageous citizens.

Our Promise. As a school community with these purposes and responsibilities, we will engage the larger communities of city, nation, and world of which we are a part. We will serve our neighbors. We will live fully in our city—exploring its byways and playing over its terrain. We will learn its history and traditions, and what it can teach us of the arts and sciences. We will embody and celebrate its diversity. Our Means. Labore et virtute. The terms of our motto, hard work and moral excellence, are meant to strengthen us as we pursue the promise and joy of Trinity School. We ask Trinity families, alumni, and friends to join us in taking on this high calling.

Mission: The Brearley School challenges girls of adventurous intellect to think critically and creatively and prepares them for active, responsible citizenship in a democratic society. Within a diverse community and in partnership with dedicated faculty who teach across three divisions, students in Classes K through XII develop a command of many disciplines and a love of learning through the passionate exchange of ideas. Encouraging girls to balance individuality and collaboration further promotes the integrity essential to principled engagement in the world.

Mission: At Roxbury Latin, we care, most of all, what kind of person a boy is.  We adhere to the original mission set forth by our founders: to prepare students intellectually, morally, and spiritually for service in the world as leaders of integrity and conviction.

Every aspect of our program supports our core values of honesty, responsibility, humility, respect and concern for others. We expect a great deal from our students.

Roxbury Latin’s rigorous academic program trains boys in exacting analysis, disciplined reflection, aesthetic appreciation, and lucid expression. The faculty constantly challenges students to hone their natural talents and encourages them to compete against their own sense of excellence.

Mission: Exeter today continues the commitment to unite knowledge and goodness. It seeks students who combine proven academic ability, intellectual curiosity, and tenacity with decency and good character.

At the Academy, exacting inquiry and thoughtful discourse foster the life of the mind, instruction and activity promote fitness and health, and the daily interactions of a residential school nurture integrity, empathy, and kindness.

Because learning and growth at Exeter arise from each individual’s engagement with others, the richness of education here requires diversity in all its dimensions; students and faculty value the differences they bring to the community they share. (diversity 35%)

The challenges that students meet at Exeter and the support they receive have a common purpose: to stimulate their development as individuals and as members of society. Exeter seeks to graduate young people whose creativity and independence of thought sustain their continuing inquiry and reflection, whose interest in others and the world around them surpasses their self-concern, and whose passion for learning impels them beyond what they already know.

Mission: Collegiate School strives to educate each boy to reach his highest level of intellectual, ethical, artistic, and physical development. Drawing on what is known about boys’ growth and learning, the school offers a rigorous K-12 program rich in opportunities for cultivating individual talents and interests in a climate of collaboration and respect. Collegiate continues its historic tradition in New York City of educating a diverse and talented student body and of helping boys to become independent adults and responsible citizens who will lead and serve.

Mission: Freedom with Responsibility. . . is an approach to living with others that places a high premium on personal relationships – the opposite of “one size fits all.” Our goal is that all students at St. Paul’s School, supported by adults within a framework of rules and expectations, develop the wisdom and independence to succeed in the next stage of their lives. Clear rules, consequences, moral standards, and an honor code govern our lives together. All members of the St. Paul’s community believe in and live by the moral understanding that being a good person matters. This high standard allows for all members of the community to learn and grow together in a place where they are treated with respect and trust from the first day they arrive until the day they depart. Allowing students to take on increasing responsibility requires that adults take time to develop close ties with them.

Motto: “Not for school, but for life we learn.”

Mission:To educate girls and young women to the highest academic and personal standards necessary for responsible, effective citizenship and for the successful pursuit of higher education.

The School creates an environment that fosters the growth of self-confidence, instills the joy of learning, develops the skills of leadership in every student and prepares its graduates intellectually and emotionally for the future.

The School is committed to preparing its students for full participation in a diverse and changing world.

Believing in the importance of strong traditions, the School also looks to the future and adapts its educational programs to meet the needs of its students, while remaining centered on a curriculum that provides preparation for college as well as “for life.”

Mission: Winsor prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world. The Winsor School is a diverse, vibrant community that values intellectual curiosity, authentic engagement and personal integrity. We challenge our students to lead lives of purpose as responsible, generous-minded women.

The principles set forth below define Winsor’s commitment to fostering an inclusive environment and a global consciousness.  The school affirms, teaches, and values:

• belief in the dignity and humanity of every person and a commitment to understanding individual and group differences
• respect for oneself and for one another and responsibility for oneself and for community
• generosity of spirit, thinking beyond one’s immediate self-interest and sharing talents freely with others
• openness to new ideas and rejection of stereotypical thinking
• honesty, kindness, integrity, courage, humor
• empathetic understanding

The Winsor School believes that a critical dimension of academic excellence in the 21st century is the preparation for responsible participation in the global community.

Mission: The Chapin School prepares a diverse and talented community of young women to thrive and lead in a global society through its dedication to academic excellence, personal integrity and community responsibility. Chapin cultivates in each student a love of learning, independent thinking, emotional resilience and a dedication to serving others.

Mission: Harvard-Westlake is a school whose curriculum and programs create an educational environment designed for students who possess both the motivation and the ability to pursue a rigorous college preparatory course of study. The school strives to provide an education that enables and empowers its diverse students to:

• develop their intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical gifts;
• to understand and respect the similarities and differences among themselves and others in their local and world communities; and
• to learn the habits of mind and self-discipline necessary to live with integrity and purpose as contributing members of society.

Goals: Harvard-Westlake will endeavor to fulfill this mission by:

• promoting an abiding regard for truth and excellence among its students;
• recognizing that respect for other people, honesty, and courtesy are fundamental standards expected of everyone in the school community;
• emphasizing logical analysis, clear language, and critical thinking throughout the curriculum;
• fostering participation in a wide range of useful activities at school and in the larger community designed both to strengthen the self and to respond to the needs and feelings of others;
• encouraging in its students the development of the self-reliance, independence, and moral strength that are requisites for the responsible exercise of freedom in the world that awaits them after they graduate.

Mission: We offer our students a rich and rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum designed to stimulate creative inquiry, intellectual achievement and independent thinking in a world increasingly without borders. We encourage these students to test themselves in athletic competition and to give expression to their artistic abilities. We draw strength from silence—and from the power of individual and collective reflection. We cultivate in all members of our community high personal expectations and integrity, respect for consensus, and an understanding of how diversity enriches us, why stewardship of the natural world matters and why service to others enhances life. Above all, we seek to be a school that nurtures a genuine love of learning and teaches students “to let their lives speak.”

Mission: To inspire and educate promising young people from diverse backgrounds for responsible leadership, personal fulfillment and enthusiastic participation in the world. Through our unique House system, collaborative Harkness approach to teaching and learning, close mentoring relationships, and extensive co-curricular opportunities We help students to develop high standards of character and scholarship, a passion for learning, an appreciation for diversity, a global perspective, and strong commitments to personal, community, and environmental responsibility.

Students: The School’s first interest is in your own abilities — your inquiring mind, your initiative, your willingness to pursue a subject deeply and to think independently. We are also interested in what you have accomplished with those abilities — how you have ventured beyond your known talents and whether you have shown excellence in some things.

Vision: In order to ensure “Success for Every Student,” Stevenson High School dedicates itself to a comprehensive and clearly articulated curriculum comprised of what should be learned, how it will be taught, and how learning will be assessed. From the classroom to the athletic field and in all activities, students prepare to thrive in a global community and learn to accept the challenge and responsibility of participating and leading in a democracy.

In order to ensure “Success for Every Student,” Stevenson High School establishes high expectations for all students and provides the support required to help them meet those expectations. Every student is recognized and valued as an individual, and the creation of support systems allows each student to attain the high standards the community holds for them. Staff members understand the importance of pursuing equity; therefore, they provide each individual student with appropriate levels of support to meet or exceed expectations.

In order to ensure “Success for Every Student,” the Board of Education, administration, staff, students, parents, and community commit to collaborative practices that ensure continuous improvement and progress toward the vision. The collective expertise and passionate commitment to learning drives individuals to excellence in their fields.

In order to ensure “Success for Every Student,” Stevenson High School establishes a safe, caring environment and fosters a culture that is highly collaborative, enables everyone to engage in ongoing learning. Stevenson dedicates itself to meaningful teaching and learning experiences. Such a culture maximizes learning, builds mutual respect between all members of the Stevenson community, and supports high levels of collaboration.

Mission: To commit minds to inquiry, hearts to compassion, and lives to the service of humanity by working in partnership with the community to provide innovative programs for all students, nurture their unique abilities, and encourage them to pursue excellence in their endeavors.

Mission: At Bay, we balance challenging academics and innovative thinking with a mindful approach to learning and life. Our goal is to see students unlock their individual and collective potential so they begin to realize their roles in a dynamic world.

Mission: To ensure that our students are humane, thinking, productive citizens through an educational system characterized by state-of-the-art technology; a dynamic interdisciplinary curriculum; an exemplary instructional and support team; student-centered active learning; respect for diversity; strong parent and community involvement; and a nurturing environment where all share a common purpose and a joy for learning.

Mission: To ensure the educational success of all students by having high expectations, a commitment to excellence, and a comprehensive program, confirming the belief that all students can learn and become responsible, productive members of a competitive society.

Mission: To prepare academically proficient students for entrance to and success at their best-match colleges or universities. We emphasize academics and appropriate co-curricular experiences that develop socially and academically successful students.

Mission: To prepare students to be ethic, ally and academically focused for entrance into college or university post-secondary education. Oxford Academy will provide students with a rigorous educational program in a collaborative setting, with emphasis on mastery of academics, critical thinking, effective communication skills, and character development.

Mission: To provide each student with an equal opportunity to succeed by promoting intellectual growth, creativity, self-discipline, cultural and linguistic sensitivity, democratic responsibility, economic competence, and physical and mental health so that each student can achieve his or her maximum potential.

WE BELIEVE…the family and community are partners with the District in fostering the skills students need to be life long learners and contributing members of society in respecting and honoring the many unique, personal, cultural, social, ethnic, and religious aspects of our FUHSD community. Each student in every school/program will experience the highest levels of learning to reach his or her fullest potential. A safe, supportive, respectful, and productive learning environment is essential to all students and staff. A highly skilled, dedicated, and caring staff has a direct and powerful influence on students’ lives and learning. Being accountable is essential to promote continuous improvement and meet the needs of students in a changing economy and society.

Mission: LGUSD educates all children to their unique potential by teaching, modeling, and supporting the skills and attitudes that contribute to their development as globally and socially responsible citizens.

Mission: To foster a community of creative thinkers who will acquire the knowledge, skills,values and integrity to be resilient, responsible, respectful, contributing citizens and lead rewarding lives which pursue personal excellence and life-long learning

Mission: To provide exemplary, standards-based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of Santa Cruz County and bordering areas. Our vision is to offer any student the same quality of education offered by the most academically distinguished schools in California. Our graduates will be prepared to enter and thrive at the world’s finest colleges and universities. In addition to a core college preparatory curriculum, Pacific Collegiate School will emphasize international, cross-cultural, and technological education in order to prepare graduates for life in the 21st Century. Pacific Collegiate students will be introduced to the rich variety of world cultures and become fluent in at least one foreign language. They will become proficient in basic information technologies essential for cultural literacy in the 21st Century.