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Ithaca Junior-Senior High School Mission, Vision, and Values Statements



MISSION (
What is our purpose? Why do we exist?)
Ithaca Junior/Senior High School will ensure that each student acquires the skills, knowledge, and character needed for personal development and civic responsibility.
VISION (What do we hope to become?)
Ithaca Junior/Senior High School strives to become an academically rigorous educational setting, while continuing to offer a variety of relevant elective courses and extracurricular opportunities. We will endeavor to create a meaningful relationship with every student that rewards excellence, stresses self-discipline and creates high expectations.
VALUES (How must we behave in order to make our shared vision a reality?)
The administration, faculty and staff will:
•  Hold student learning as our number one goal
•  Encourage an atmosphere which values education
•  Demonstrate and encourage an atmosphere of mutual respect
•  Develop and model social responsibility
•  Model and develop proactive leadership at all levels
•  Communicate with each other, parents, and students in a timely, regular, and meaningful manner
•  Preserve the sanctity of instructional time
•  Promote our own professional growth
•  Model a commitment to lifelong learning
•  Build positive relationships with students
•  Use data to facilitate and enhance instruction
•  Create an expectation of accountability among ourselves
•  Promote group cohesion and positive regard for each other

Last Modified on August 24, 2012