Mission Statement
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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