The Mission Of District 203 Is To Produce Students Who Are:
Self-Directed Learners:
♦ Initiates, prioritizes, and evaluates achievable goals
♦ Seeks continuous learning opportunities
♦ Manages multiple tasks and life demands
♦ Takes responsibility for all choices
♦ Demonstrates positive choices for physical, social, spiritual, and emotional health
♦ Maintains a positive outlook
Skills: Independence, Accountability, Organization, Wellness
Collaborative Workers:
♦ Works within diverse groups to achieve a common goal
♦ Monitors and manages own role and behavior as a group member
♦ Offers and accepts constructive criticism
♦ Demonstrates consideration and respect for self and others
Skills: Teamwork
Complex Thinkers:
♦ Selects, applies, and reflects upon the processes to solve problems
♦ Accesses, evaluates, integrates, and cites information from primary and secondary
resources
♦ Receives and expresses knowledge through spoken, written, visual, and tactile
language
♦ Perceives, creates, and respects aesthetic meaning of behavioral, natural, and artistic
expression
Skills: Research, Communication, Aesthetic Appreciation, Critical Thinking
Quality Producers:
♦ Creates products to achieve an authentic purpose
♦ Constructs products appropriate for audience and context
♦ Designs and develops products/presentations that reflect integrity, confidence,
objectivity, and craftsmanship
♦ Uses relevant computer technology wisely, ethically, and efficiently
Skills: Presentation, Technology
Community Contributors:
♦ Explores individual and societal connections which impact communities of all sizes
♦ Develops respect for self and empathy for those of diverse abilities, cultures, and
beliefs
♦ Plans and takes action for creating community in a variety of settings
♦ Exercises the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
Skills: Global Awareness, Acceptance of self and others
