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Garnet Valley School District
The Garnet Valley School District understands that families in today's complex society need flexibility and options to meet their child's individual educational needs. Therefore, the District is committed to hiring the best and the brightest teachers, support staff, and administrators who will be tasked with the most important goal; enhance student achievement while cultivating a culture that supports the belief that all students can learn through adult behaviors that maximize every child's potential.
Purpose
The Garnet Valley School District understands that families in today's complex society need flexibility and options to meet their child's individual educational needs. Therefore, the District is committed to hiring the best and the brightest teachers, support staff, and administrators who will be tasked with the most important goal; enhance student achievement while cultivating a culture that supports the belief that all students can learn through adult behaviors that maximize every child's potential.
Vision
The vision of Garnet Valley School District is to be a premier school district committed to continual improvement characterized by: High educational standards and expectations, Exemplary programs and instruction for all students, Creating a safe learning environment, Developing students who possess the skills to achieve in a global community, Having a commitment to inspire life-long learning in all of our students.
Mission
Quality Educational Opportunities for All
Additional Culture Details
Becoming Future Ready
At the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, the district discussed how to propel Garnet Valley from a great school district to an extraordinary one. During that discussion we spoke about communicating transparently, seeking multiple perspectives, and accepting the need to grow and learn as professionals. We, however, felt strongly that as we moved the district into the future, the areas of student achievement, safe and caring, and management of systems should remain our foundational, strategic focus.
Our challenge was to bridge our students’ and educators’ current realities with a vision for propelling our strategic focus into the future. Believing that establishing shared organizational and operational objectives was the engine to drive our work, we committed to maximizing student achievement, hiring the best and the brightest, personalizing professional learning, communicating transparently, and practicing fiscal responsibility.
In order to meet these objectives, we endeavored to challenge traditional obstacles and excuses and replace them with enhanced and innovative processes, to practice inter-accountability, to give defined autonomy to our informal and formal leaders, to dissolve illusions of prosperity, to spread an amoeba of educators who believe strongly in the work, and finally to “button it up” by bringing our 100% best for our students every minute of every day!
We quickly realized that identifying areas of focus and objectives would never become part of our organizational functions and routines without building a culture to support them. As a result we targeted and then normed behaviors that would create this culture. We scaffolded these behaviors on three broad categories that included participation and engagement, decision making, global citizenship, and innovation. We then committed to modeling and practicing them in all of our interactions.
As we kept our laser-like focus on our organizational and operational objectives and worked to continuously improve our culture, the rate of change within the district increased. Catching up to other progressive, high achieving districts transitioned quickly to catching on to their processes that could enhance our strengths. And today, through innovative programs and teaching strategies designed to personalize learning experiences, Garnet Valley is providing students the flexibility to learn in various modes, modalities, and environments depending on their individual needs and goals.
Garnet Valley is now organizationally, operationally, and culturally Future Ready, which is why we signed on to become a Future Ready School District. We believe that through this framework, we can provide safe, caring, and personalized learning experiences in which all of our students can thrive.
At the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, the district discussed how to propel Garnet Valley from a great school district to an extraordinary one. During that discussion we spoke about communicating transparently, seeking multiple perspectives, and accepting the need to grow and learn as professionals. We, however, felt strongly that as we moved the district into the future, the areas of student achievement, safe and caring, and management of systems should remain our foundational, strategic focus.
Our challenge was to bridge our students’ and educators’ current realities with a vision for propelling our strategic focus into the future. Believing that establishing shared organizational and operational objectives was the engine to drive our work, we committed to maximizing student achievement, hiring the best and the brightest, personalizing professional learning, communicating transparently, and practicing fiscal responsibility.
In order to meet these objectives, we endeavored to challenge traditional obstacles and excuses and replace them with enhanced and innovative processes, to practice inter-accountability, to give defined autonomy to our informal and formal leaders, to dissolve illusions of prosperity, to spread an amoeba of educators who believe strongly in the work, and finally to “button it up” by bringing our 100% best for our students every minute of every day!
We quickly realized that identifying areas of focus and objectives would never become part of our organizational functions and routines without building a culture to support them. As a result we targeted and then normed behaviors that would create this culture. We scaffolded these behaviors on three broad categories that included participation and engagement, decision making, global citizenship, and innovation. We then committed to modeling and practicing them in all of our interactions.
As we kept our laser-like focus on our organizational and operational objectives and worked to continuously improve our culture, the rate of change within the district increased. Catching up to other progressive, high achieving districts transitioned quickly to catching on to their processes that could enhance our strengths. And today, through innovative programs and teaching strategies designed to personalize learning experiences, Garnet Valley is providing students the flexibility to learn in various modes, modalities, and environments depending on their individual needs and goals.
Garnet Valley is now organizationally, operationally, and culturally Future Ready, which is why we signed on to become a Future Ready School District. We believe that through this framework, we can provide safe, caring, and personalized learning experiences in which all of our students can thrive.
Values
- Global Citizenship
- The Garnet Valley School District values a culture where all employees are encouraged to: share and acknowledge perspective and truth, engage in the collaborative process and own the outcomes, share vulnerability, take risks to grow, and interact respectfully, empathetically, and inclusively.
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