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Mission:
All students realize their personal potential. They graduate
with the knowledge, understanding, and skills to be effective
and responsible local and global citizens. They employ critical,
independent, and collaborative thinking to apply what they
have learned. All students show evidence of reasonable growth
each year toward meeting or exceeding all state and district
standards.
Adopted
October 2006
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LITERACY
All students read with understanding, speak clearly and persuasively,
and write directly and creatively to learn from and communicate
with others.
MATHEMATICS
All students employ mathematical concepts and tools to
analyze options, solve real-life challenges, and systematically
pursue new levels of understanding and connection.
SCIENCE
All students use scientific processes to find connections
within the natural universe and develop insightful
solutions to advance quality of life and a sustainable
world environment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
All students are prepared to make informed and reasoned
decisions for the public good as citizens of our culturally
diverse, democratic republic in an interdependent world.
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WORLD LANGUAGES
All students listen to, speak, read, and write in a second
language to better understand and communicate with
people from other cultures.
ARTS
All students use visual arts, music, drama, and dance
as a source of personal and cultural expression and
communication.
PHYSICAL FITNESS
All students understand the components of good health and
engage in physical activity to develop healthful and rewarding
lifestyles.
LIFE SKILLS
All students demonstrate skills and practices that allow
them to achieve personally fulfilling lives.
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Literacy
Standards:
Reading
is the highest priority for students. All students demonstrate
reading mastery at or above grade level and will write
competently in
a variety of content areas for varied purposes and audiences. 1.
Students read and understand a variety of materials.
2.
Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and
audiences.
3.
Students write and speak using conventional grammar,
usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization,
and spelling.
4.
Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing,
speaking, listening, and viewing.
5.
Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant
information from a variety of media, reference, and technological
sources.
6.
Students read, recognize, and appreciate literature as
a record of human experience.
7.
Students read to judge merit of information.
8.
Students’ writing reflects fluency, expression
of ideas, effective organization, and voice.
9.
Students use writing as a process that involves the stages
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Math Standards:
All
students demonstrate mathematical competency by applying a
variety of mathematical principles to real life problems.
1.
Students develop number sense and use numbers and number
relationships in problem-solving situations and communicate
the reasoning used in solving these problems.
2.
Students use algebraic methods to explore, model, and
describe patterns and functions involving numbers, shapes,
data, and graphs in problem-solving situations and communicate
the reasoning used in solving these problems.
3.
Students use data collection and analysis, statistics,
and probability in problem-solving situations and communicate
the reasoning used in solving these problems.
4.
Students use geometric concepts, properties, and relationships
in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning
used in solving these problems.
5.
Students use a variety of tools and techniques to measure,
apply the results in problem-solving situations, and
communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems.
6.
Students link concepts and procedures as they develop
and use computational techniques, including estimation,
mental arithmetic, paper-and-pencil, calculators, and
computers, in problem-solving situations and communicate
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Science Standards:
All
students demonstrate understanding of scientific concepts
as well as proficiency in problem-solving using the scientific
method.
1.
Students know and understand the processes of scientific
investigation and design, conduct, communicate about,
and evaluate such investigations.
2.
Physical Science: Students know and understand common
properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy.
3.
Life Science: Students know and understand the characteristics
and structure of living things, the processes of life,
and how living things interact with each other and their
environment.
4.
Earth and Space Science: Students know and understand
the processes and interactions of Earth’s systems
and the structure and dynamics of Earth and other objects
in space.
5.
Students know and understand interrelationships among
science, technology, and human activity and how they
can affect the world.
6.
Students know and understand that science involves a
particular way of knowing and understand common connections
among scientific disciplines. |
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History
Standard:
All
students demonstrate an understanding of history to
participate as productive and responsible citizens. 1.
Students know and understand the chronological organization
of history and know how to organize events and people
into major eras to identify and explain historical relationships.
2.
Students know and understand how to use the processes
and resources of historical inquiry.
3.
Students know and understand that societies are diverse
and have changed over time.
4.
Students know and understand how science, technology,
and economic activity have developed, changed, and affected
societies throughout history.
5.
Students know and understand political institutions and
theories that have developed and changed over time.
6.
Students know and understand that religious and philosophical
ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.
7.
Students can apply knowledge of the world past and present
to make responsible decisions for the future. |
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Geography Standard:
All
students demonstrate an understanding of geography and
the environment to participate as productive and responsible
citizens. 1.
Students know how to use and construct maps, globes,
and other geographic tools to locate and derive information
about people, places, and environments.
2.
Students know and understand the physical and human characteristics
of places in order to define and study regions and their
patterns of change.
3.
Students know and understand how physical processes shape
earth’s surface patterns and systems.
4.
Students know and understand how economic, political,
cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns
of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and
conflict.
5.
Students know and understand the effects of interactions
between human and physical systems and the changes in
meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
6.
Students apply knowledge of people, places, and environments
to understand the past and present and to plan for the
future. |
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Civics
Standards:
All
students demonstrate an understanding of democracy to
participate as productive and responsible citizens. 1.
Students know and understand the purposes of government
and the basic constitutional principles of the U.S. republican
form of government.
2.
Students know and understand the structure and function
of local, state, and national government and how citizen
involvement shapes public policy.
3.
Students know and understand the political relationship
of the United States and its citizens to other nations
and to world affairs.
4.
Students know and understand how citizens exercise the
roles, rights, and responsibilities of participation
in civic life at all levels – local, state, and
national.
5.
Students respect the rights and responsibilities of citizens
in a democratic society. |
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Economics
Standards:
All
students demonstrate an understanding of world economics
to participate as productive and responsible
citizens. 1.
Students know and understand that, because of the condition
of scarcity, responsible decisions must be made about
the use of resources.
2.
Students know and understand how different economic systems
impact decisions about the use of resources and the production
and distribution of goods and services.
3.
Students know and understand the results of trade, exchange,
and interdependence among individuals, households, businesses,
governments, and societies. |
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CDE
Languages Standards |
World Languages Standards:
All
students have the opportunity to study a language beyond
English.
1.
Students communicate in a foreign language while demonstrating
literacy in all four essential skills: listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
2.
Students acquire and use knowledge of other cultures
while developing foreign language skills. |
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CDE
Visual Arts Standards |
Visual Arts Standards:
All
students use the arts for exploration, communication,
and self-expression. 1.
Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form
of communication.
2.
Students know and apply elements of art, principles of
design, and sensory and expressive features of visual
arts.
3.
Students know and apply visual arts materials, techniques,
and processes.
4.
Students relate the visual arts to history and culture.
5.
Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits,
and meaning of works of art. |
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CDE
Music Standards |
Music Standards:
All
students explore the different forms of music to understand,
appreciate, and perform. 1.
Students sing or perform a varied repertoire of music.
2.
Students read and notate music.
3.
Students create music.
4.
Students listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.
5.
Students explore various cultures through the study of
music and music history. |
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Performiong Arts Standards:
All
students use the performing arts for exploration and
communication.
1.
Students demonstrate knowledge and skill in movement.
2.
Students demonstrate knowledge and skill in drama.
3.
Students demonstrate knowledge and skill in dance. |
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Health
Standards:
All
students demonstrate an understanding of the components
of good health to develop healthy and rewarding lifestyles. 1.
Students know and understand concepts related to health
promotion and disease prevention.
2.
Students demonstrate the ability to access valid health
information and health-promoting products and services.
3.
Students demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing
behaviors and reduce health risks.
4.
Students analyze the influence of culture, media, technology,
and other factors on health.
5.
Students demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal
communication skills to enhance health.
6.
Students demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting
and decision-making skills to enhance health.
7.
Students demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal,
family, and community health.
8.
Students demonstrate
health-related knowledge, attitudes,
and practices. |
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CDE
Physical Fitness Standards |
Physical Education
Standards:
All
students participate regularly in physical activity to
develop healthy and rewarding lifestyles.
1.
Students demonstrate competent skills in a variety
of physical activities and sports.
2 .
Students demonstrate proficiency in physical fitness.
3.
Students demonstrate the knowledge necessary to participate
in physical activity. |
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1. Identify
and develop personal interests.
2.
Set and achieve personal
goals.
3. Apply academic and career-planning strategies
to gain satisfying employment or life work.
4. Work cooperatively
and collaborativelyUse technology to locate, organize,
evaluate, and communicate information.
5. Demonstrate understanding
of responsible consumerism and personal money managementUnderstand
and model honest and ethical actionsUnderstand and model
compassion, fairness, and respect for others.
6. Accept responsibility
for service to family and community.
7. Honor commitments
and accept responsibility for personal actions. |
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