Vision, Mission and Beliefs

Naperville 203 Vision

Building a Passion for Lifelong Learning

Naperville 203 Mission

The mission of Naperville Community Unit School District 203 is to empower students to develop a learner’s mindset, demonstrate adaptability, communicate effectively, think critically, and become global citizens.

Adaptability

• Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities, roles, and situations.
• Demonstrate agility and resilience in thoughts and actions.
• Respond productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.
• Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.

Communication

• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.
• Use communication for a range of purposes and audiences including to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade.
• Seek, contribute, and respond to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.

Critical Thinking

• Understand the bigger picture and propose solutions that consider the effects on the whole system.
• Consistently improve the quality of one's own thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing.
• Apply disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.
• Access, evaluate, and integrate information effectively, using appropriate tools and resources wisely, ethically, and efficiently.

Learner’s Mindset

• Embrace curiosity to experience new ideas, while developing positive attitudes and beliefs about learning.
• Possess the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
• Find and maximize opportunities to actively listen and elicit diverse perspectives from others.
• Adopt a dynamic mindset, embracing flexibility and taking ownership, with intrinsic motivation and an eagerness to evolve.

Global Citizen 

• Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others' feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
• Value and embrace diverse cultures and unique perspectives through mutual respect and open dialogue.
• Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through ethical and empathetic behaviors.
• Elicit diverse perspectives and contributions.