CLIO AREA SCHOOLS

MISSION

The mission of Clio Area Schools is to ensure all students learn skills needed for tomorrow's world.

We believe that all students can learn, that all students want to succeed, and that their success is judged on the basis of outcome.

Our primary function is teaching and learning. Learning is a continuous process throughout life that requires the cooperative support of students, parents, school family, and community. Learning results when people with expertise, empathy, mutual respect, and understanding work together toward common goals in an environment that is safe, supportive, and trusting.

GOALS

Our goal is that each of our students:

	Make one year's gain in every academic subject every year as measured by a nationally normed test or teacher validation
	Attend at least 171 days of school
	Have not more than one discipline referral per school year
	Earn passing grades in every class
	Add one piece of formal writing (not to include journal or diary writing) to his or her portfolio every year
	Receive a high school diploma by the end of the school year in which he/she turns nineteen
	Participate in at least one extracurricular activity every year
	Follow an educational plan that will give him/her the skills necessary to acquire the job the which he/she aspires
	Pass the district approved fitness test
	Participate in and be enriched by a recognized fine arts activity
	Receive a proficient score on all MEAP/HSPT tests

OUTCOMES/ADULT ROLES

We expect the following of each of our students:

	Command and use reading skills for information, ideas, opinions, and leisure activities.
	Work well with others while maintaining his/her own ideas, views and standards.
	Express ideas in speech and writing with clarity and correctness.
	Develop those character qualities and social courtesies needed in society.
	Assume the responsibilities of a citizen.
	Demonstrate a command of mathematical thinking and the scientific process.
	Learn independently and show a desire to do so.
	Recognize logical and illogical thinking in an effort to reach reasonable conclusions.