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The committee created this mission statement. Please review and provide feedback!

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The committee created the new vision on 1/5/22. Please provide feedback!

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Strength: The music program. The marching band wins local, regional, and national championships. Kiski’s musical performance is known throughout the USA.

3 Foreign Languages are offered including the highly sought after Chinese language.

All courses taught in the high school are honors level courses

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Charter and private schools

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Create an online module that makes getting a Kiski education more attractive than going to a charter school or private school.

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Lack of standardization between school. All of our schools should be Blue Ribbon schools.

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State government has taken decisions out of the local level .

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PSU New Ken making strides in connecting business and education https://nextovation.org/

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Transforming a Rust Belt community through innovation, entrepreneurship and preparation for the digital age. Connect Using entrepreneurship, innovation, cutting edge technologies and skill sets Nextovation™ is an inclusive and collaborative initiative focused

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PLCs have created a collaboration that benefits student growth as well as teacher growth. Many of the schools have been recognized as a Model PLC.

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Administrative recognition - Dan Smith -Pennsylvania Elementary Assistant Principal of the Year from the Pennsylvania Principal's Association.

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We lack the people and programs that may assist families and students with housing, mental health, and parenting needs that have grown in our community.

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Increasing number of people that see online or charter as better because the offer a more individual experience and or "on demand."

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Google Reference District

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Lack of parent involvement and support in some of the schools.  It is the same small group of parents that participate in everything.

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ESSER funding

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Teachers credited with creating and implementing courses through the WIU eAcademy and eAcademy PLUS program.

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Lack of emotional and autistic support classrooms.

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Please come prepared for our 1/19/22 meeting with example value statements.

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I believe we've always had a strong and stable administration. Even though we've had notable demographic changes over the 6-decades of our existence we've been able to maintain academic and athletic excellence, along with other important extracurricular activities. I think our mix of rural and close knit communities with constructive parental involvement have helped the district greatly. 

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I believe we've always had a strong and stable administration. Even though we've had notable demographic changes over the 6-decades of our existence we've been able to maintain academic and athletic excellence, along with other important extracurricular activities. I think our mix of rural and close knit communities with constructive parental involvement have helped the district greatly. 

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WEAKNESSES - I'm not sure how to answer this because I haven't heard many complaints about the district as a whole.  Of course we've had our fair share of naysayers who attend school board meetings but most districts have that.  Personally, I would like to see more STEM.  We've made progress in this area and I'd like to see it continue.  Please do not turn our district into a WOKE school.  From my perspective we've always done a very good job of being an inclusive educational body.  And this goes back to my days in high school 50 years ago.

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WEAKNESSES - I'm not sure how to answer this because I haven't heard many complaints about the district as a whole.  Of course we've had our fair share of naysayers who attend school board meetings but most districts have that.  Personally, I would like to see more STEM.  We've made progress in this area and I'd like to see it continue.  Please do not turn our district into a WOKE school.  From my perspective we've always done a very good job of being an inclusive educational body.  And this goes back to my days in high school 50 years ago.

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OPPORTUNITY: I'm not really sure how this applies to me as a tax payer  and interested alumnus.  

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OPPORTUNITY: I'm not really sure how this applies to me as a tax payer  and interested alumnus.  

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THREATS: I think if we were to follow the socialist agenda it would greatly hurt our students because it's not how the country works.  We've always been a practical district and have always seemed to be to do "more with less".  Our tax base is solid but pales in comparison to the larger districts with much bigger budgets.  Let's keep that in mind.  

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THREATS: I think if we were to follow the socialist agenda it would greatly hurt our students because it's not how the country works.  We've always been a practical district and have always seemed to be to do "more with less".  Our tax base is solid but pales in comparison to the larger districts with much bigger budgets.  Let's keep that in mind.  

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Vision Statement:  Are these visions?  To me to come across more as goals.

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Vision Statement:  Are these visions?  To me to come across more as goals.

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Although I think it is worthy of discussion and review, our current mission statement was derived through the PLC process. I don't recall the exact text (though it may be "Learning by Doing"), but this mission statement was referenced during one of our administrative book reviews.

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I would be interested in taking a look at some other district vision statements.  As an admin team, we viewed these as our district's "stretch goals," or our vision of where we would like our district to be in the future.   

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I would be interested in taking a look at some other district vision statements.  As an admin team, we viewed these as our district's "stretch goals," or our vision of where we would like our district to be in the future.   

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Again, I believe these align with the professional learning community process and the continuous cycle of improvement as whole.

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These are great and embody all that we do on a daily basis.

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I think that "productive citizen" is generic and is used in many mission statements.  I would like to see different wording.

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I think that "productive citizen" is generic and is used in many mission statements.  I would like to see different wording.

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We value inquiry and intellectual growth of all students and staff, recognizing their unique learning needs, encouraging them to be creative, engaged, and lifelong learners.

Example Value Statements (Categorized): https://www.mgs.vic.edu.au/about/governance-and-leadership/school-values

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Our values convey the beliefs that positively influence our behaviour and the way we interact with individuals, groups and communities. They represent the deepest beliefs and sentiments to which we can aspire, and they shape our School community.

These are the values that shape our School:

Learning

We value inquiry and intellectual growth of all students and staff, recognising their different learning needs, encouraging them to be creative, engaged and lifelong learners.

Diversity

We value the acceptance and fair treatment of all people in our community. Social justice and compassion are highly regarded and actively pursued. We encourage the development of a wide range of curricular and co-curricular opportunities throughout the School to help facilitate individual talents and interests.

Integrity

We value strength of character, honesty and courage, guided by a strong moral code of behaviour.

Excellence

We value the process of striving for excellence, recognising both relative and absolute standards of excellence, and the desire to produce one's best at all times.

Spirituality

We value the Christian spiritual journey based in the Anglican tradition, acknowledging World religions and the importance of the human spirit which gives personal meaning to life.

Leadership

We value leadership and teamwork, underpinned by a strong ethical and moral dimension and put to use in serving our community. The notion of gratitude and 'giving back' is an essential feature of our leadership programmes.

A sense of community

We value community, both within and outside the School, and the need for all citizens to be positive and productive members of society. When our values are actively engaged, the result is a supportive environment where everyone feels that they belong.

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Our values convey the beliefs that positively influence our behaviour and the way we interact with individuals, groups and communities. They represent the deepest beliefs and sentiments to which we can aspire, and they shape our School community.