Department Visions

ELECTIVES:  With a growth mindset, students will engage in hands-on activities to acquire new skills and self-confidence. Using their knowledge, students can take risks and accept challenges to gain access to more complex levels. Through their projects, students will develop an understanding and appreciation for critical thinking that will follow them through their academic careers and beyond.

WELLNESS:  All students will actively contribute to a learning environment that fosters cooperative social skills and healthy habits. Students are empowered to take ownership of their learning and develop skills that will encourage lifelong, well-balanced health.

STUDENT SERVICES:  Students are present, feel safe, seen, and heard. Students will  engage in a culture of inclusion where they feel supported and are willing to take risks. Success is measured by a student’s ability to become empowered and motivated to make progress towards their goals. Their success is celebrated.

MATH:  Students will persevere through real world problems in a safe and supportive environment that builds on prior knowledge and experiences and allows students to feel appreciated and walk away successful. Students engage in the HoM/ HoI to develop mathematical reasoning that values struggle and allows for revisions in thinking using a growth mindset.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  Students will participate, engage, take ownership of, and enjoy learning activities, allowing students to become more confident in their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Students will collaborate, communicate, and analyze diverse texts in order to grow their content-specific skills while also developing social-emotional skills. The goal for ELA classes is to create a student-centered, safe, and engaging space where students are in the best learning environment, where they feel heard and included.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Students will actively participate in the learning process by exploring history, culture, geography, political and economic issues through citation of primary and secondary sources. Students will collaborate and think critically while developing content language. They will build connections from the prehistoric to the modern world - expressing their opinion in a safe and respectful manner.

SCIENCE:  Students will engage and explore in hands on investigations and student driven lessons. Sensemaking is rooted in solving and examining real world problems and understanding the natural world. Students engage in content specific partner talk to make connections between prior knowledge and new learning applying CCCs, and utilizing SEPs.