Code: IA
Adopted: 1/15/14
Revised/Readopted: 8/08/17; 10/11/22
Orig. Code(s): IA
In establishing an effective educational program as part of the students’ total education, the ESD, Northwest Regional Education Service District (NWRESD) recognizes the importance of developing a partnership that promotes the involvement of staff, parents and the community.
The ESD is committed to a continual process of collaborative decision making and goal setting that supports the following characteristics:
- Provides equal and open access and educational opportunities for all students regardless of their
linguistic background, culture, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender, capability or geographic location;
- Assumes that all students can learn and establishes high, specific skill and knowledge expectations and recognizes individual differences at all instructional levels;
- Provides special education, compensatory education, linguistically and culturally appropriate education and other specialized programs to all students who need those services;
- Supports the physical and cognitive growth and development of students;
- Provides students with a solid foundation in the skills of reading, writing, problem solving and communication;
- Provides opportunities for students to learn, think, reason, retrieve information, use technology and work effectively alone and in groups;
- Provides for rigorous academic content standards and instruction in mathematics, science, language arts, history, geography, economics, civics, physical education, health, the arts and world languages;
- Provides students with an educational background to the end that they will function successfully in a constitutional republic, a participatory democracy and a multicultural nation and world;
- Provides students with the knowledge and skills that will provide the opportunities to succeed in the world of work, as members of families and as citizens;
- Provides students with the knowledge and skills that lead to an active, healthy lifestyle;
- Provides students with the knowledge and skills to take responsibility for their decisions and choices;
- Provides opportunities for students to learn through a variety of teaching strategies;
- Emphasizes involvement of parents and community in the total education of students;
- Transports students safely to and from school;
- Ensures that the funds allocated to schools reflect the uncontrollable differences in costs facing each ESD;
- Ensures that local schools have adequate control of how funds are spent to best meet the needs of students in their communities;
- Provides for a safe, educational environment;
- Provides increased learning time;
- Provides each student an education experience that supports students’ academic growth beyond proficiency in academic content standards and encourages their attainment of challenging and aspirational individual goals; and
- Utilizes valid and reliable data for evaluating the success of curriculum, instruction, resource allocation and school improvement.
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