Mission:

U.S.D. 312 will provide a comprehensive curriculum, which emphasizes communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills and knowledge that will be used beyond the student’s school years. The curriculum will be flexible and will focus on our students’ needs in the twenty-first century.

Our instructional strategies will include techniques which actively involve students and will result in improving student achievement. Special needs will be addressed which will assure an opportunity for success for all students.

Students will be expected to be mentally and physically prepared to participate in a respectful manner. Staff will set a positive example and have high expectations for students and themselves.

The U.S.D. 312 teaching staff will be responsible for ongoing professional growth by keeping current with curricular trends and the processes of teaching and learning.

Interaction among students, parents, staff and community will be encouraged and based on mutual respect. Students will be tolerant of other students’ differences and needs. Teacher to teacher interaction will focus on a collegial sharing with each other in an atmosphere of open communication, mutual respect and cooperation.

We will have a positive school climate that gives everyone a sense of belonging. The physical appearance of the buildings will be safe, inviting, clean and well maintained. Each day when students and staff leave their U.S.D. 312 building, they will do so with feeling of success and accomplishment.