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About Central High School Mission Statement Central High School’s mission is to consistently generate student learning and academic achievement through respectful, responsible, and rigorous instruction. Vision Statement Central High School will equip respectful and responsible students to apply skill mastery and content knowledge to build creative, meaningful, and successful solutions to authentic problems in order to achieve academic, vocational, and life success. Our core values will permeate our school culture, and will include: Respect for All Central to all things, we practice and expect respect from and for ourselves and others in all that we do. Responsibility in All Say what you mean, mean what you say, and be true to your word. Do the right thing, not the easy thing. Do what you must before doing what you want. Safety for All The classroom, the hallway, the office, the bus, the sidewalk, the campus… all aspects of our school must be safe for students, physically and psychologically. Equity for All Discrimination is unacceptable in any form in an American public school. Every student is inherently and fundamentally equal. Constructivism Students should create or construct something real and relevant in every classroom, every day. Reflective Practices What did you do? Why did you do it? What will you do differently to improve? Academic Rigor Teaching and learning goes on in every classroom, every day, without fail. We don’t do “Free Days.” Formative Assessment Where did they start? Where are they now? How will I get every student to where they need to be? Data-Driven Decisions What do we want to do? How will we know we’re doing it? How will we know we’ve done it? How will we show we’ve done it? What does it mean? Resultant Post-Tests High achievement on summative post-tests should be the result of good instructional design and delivery, and never the ultimate goal of teaching. We endow student learning with primacy, and deny high-stakes testing the power of being the single most determining factor in how a school operates as has been the unfortunate trend in American public schools for too long. Our Three Classroom Rules
“No practice, no method, no initiative, no matter how effective or ingrained, no matter how lasting or tried, should or can continue in a progressive constructivist setting without consistent analysis, reanalysis, and questioning. The leader is unafraid of putting everything to the test, including and most especially one's own practices and beliefs.” - Keith David Reeves | ||