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Educating- Empowering
The school provides appropriate instruction for students with disabilities in career development and opportunities to participate
in work-based learning.
The school has an expectation that instruction in language development is the responsibility of all teachers throughout the school
and instruction to ELLs/MLLs includes explicit and implicit evidence-based academic vocabulary instruction.

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Do you think that we are living up to our vision statement?

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Do you think that we are living up to our vision statement?

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Educating: As educators, we are preparing our students with the tools they will need not in just a specific subject area, but for life.
Empowering: Encouraging and allowing the students to set goals, to lead and facilitate discussions, and preparing them to take action.
Individual Thinkers: Although the students may work in groups, each students will be able to engage and contribute to the discussion, share their own thoughts, ideas and/or questions.
Impact in the World: The skills that the students are learning now are not just for now, today or middle school. We are equipping them with tools that they will take with them as they learn and group into adulthood.

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The mission statement means that we are educating our students so that they can make an impact on society. It is preparing them to be future leaders, and being able to voice their opinions and ideas on things that they do not agree with. Also, coming up with solutions to make the world a better place.

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The vision statement tells me to prepare my students for the future, and remind them they will be our world leaders.

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Educating: Educating academically and emotionally. All students at I.S. 254 develop their capacity to understand apply concepts in the real world (impact in the world). An education that goes beyond a worksheet or a standardized test.
- Are all students at I.S. 254 given opportunities to apply concepts and skills in real life? - Are students aware of the why and the how behind standards taught?

Empowering: Students at I.S. 254 are already powerful. During their time at I.S. 254 students develop tools and techniques to use their power for the benefit of themselves and their community. A student at I.S. 254 use  their power to empower others (impact in the world). They understand the power of their voice, thoughts  and actions. It's never to early to use these powers.
-Are students at I.S. 254 given the opportunity to use their power to affect real change?

Individual Thinkers: Beyond just a leader in the traditional sense of the word. Not a "boss" but an enabler of success in themselves an others.  Students with confidence in their power and not afraid to step out of what is traditionally expected. Individual thinkers assess, analyze and evaluate problems in order to create solutions.

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Preparing our students for the real world. Providing them with tools to be successful independent individuals.

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The Vision statement means that we are preparing our children for the future. Even if they do not become leaders, we want them to have leadership qualities so they can feel comfortable in their respective fields. We want them to spread their wings and join the rest of the flock in empowering themselves, the people around them, and the next generation. After all, they are receiving many resources that not many of us were blessed with and educators like ourselves who are willing to show them that it is okay to make mistakes along the way to success.

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each one of our students should be given the tools and strategies to be able to critically think about things, evaluate what is before them , and be able to take a stand to support their pov and how their actions can make an impact in our world.

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I.S. 254 Vision: Educating and empowering individual thinkers to make an impact in the world.

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What does the Vision Statement mean to you?

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What does the Vision Statement mean to you?

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Helping students understand that they control their own destiny and vision for a successful and productive life.