Otsego Elementary School Faculty Handbook - Half Hollow Hills

CHARACTERISTICS OF A DISTINGUISED DISTRICT
• Educators continually engage in their own learning.
• Staff knows students well and cares about them as individuals.
• Intellectually challenging and engaging curriculum and instructional practices
are differentiated to meet individual needs. Curriculum and instruction
includes mastery of the basics, active inquiry, development of high level
intellectual skills, and real world learning experiences.
• Student voice is encouraged and heard.
• Forges close ties with parents, families without children, senior citizens,
colleges and universities, and members of the business community.
• Provides safe, attractive school environments for teaching and learning.
• Teachers have time to work together to improve teaching through
collaboration and inquiry.
• Teachers and students are provided with and gain competency in use of
sophisticated leading-edge technologies and instructions/learning tools that
support active inquiry and maximize the effectiveness of teaching and
learning.
• All members of the school community are respected and supported.
• Each adult member of the school community exhibits good character and
strives to inculcate in students the qualities of dignity, tolerance, and a
sincere respect for the learning environment.
• Student achievement is measured in ways that are directly linked to
instructional programs. Allows students to demonstrate their attainment of
knowledge and skills in multi-faceted ways.
• Effectively prepares all students for success in college, the world of work, and
for active participation as citizens of the community, the nation, and the
world.