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"It Takes a Village to Educate a Child"

Vision Statement

The Vision of What Our School Will Be:

1. School is made up of small "Learning Communities."

• A learning community is the network of students, teachers, parents, and other resources, to which each child belongs.
• The child is a citizen of his/her multi-age learning community for several years.
• Adult and student members of the learning community work independently, and in collaboration with other learners.

2. At the heart of the Learning Community is the work the student does.

• The student is the primary worker in the community.
• The student's work is learning.
• The learning is organized by an individual learning plan.

3. The Essential Behaviors for Learners are the outcomes each child must demonstrate.

The Essential Behaviors for Learners require that effective learners:

• Think creatively and critically
• Communicate
• Cooperate with others
• Use appropriate resources to seek, access and apply knowledge
• Function independently
• Take risks and succeed
• Exhibit self-confidence
• Create options and make choices

In order to demonstrate these complex learning behaviors, each child must:

• actively search for, discover, learn and apply information
• use skills for this complex learning
• be able to clearly identify and strengthen his/her individual learning skills.

The Shelburne Community School Mission and Vision are being reviewed by the Board of School Directors.  If you wish to have any input or suggestions regarding the revisions, send E-mail to:

Grant Bush at gbush1@prodigy.net

or

Bonnie Douglas at bdouglas@shelburne.k12.vt.us

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