North Oconee High - Oconee County Schools

Accreditation Report
North Oconee High School
School's Purpose
Provide the school's purpose statement and ancillary content such as mission, vision, values, and/or beliefs. Describe how the
school embodies its purpose through its program offerings and expectations for students.
North Oconee High School's Vision and Mission statements have been created through a process that included input from all the
stakeholders. The statements below are the result of the work of those stakeholders.
Vision Statement: North Oconee High School will continue to be to a nationally-recognized high school in academic achievement by ensuring
all students receive a rigorous, balanced education that will enable them to compete in and contribute to a global society.
Mission Statement: Teach, Inspire, Transform, And Nurture Students
Common Meanings:
Teach - We guide students in the learning process to think and problem solve.
Inspire - We inspire students to reach for their dreams through preparation and dedication.
Transform - We transform students into young adults ready to accept the world's challenges.
And - We recognize that all parts of the education process are important.
Nurture - We provide the support students need to push forward and succeed.
Students - We recognize that all students are important and provide worth.
Beliefs:
North Oconee High School believes in its students and in helping them prepare for the challenges to come after graduation. The faculty and
staff of NOHS believes that every student is important and provides a measure of worth to each day. They believe in the education process
and providing a challenging curriculum that allows each student to individually advance. At NOHS we understand that educating the whole
child is of utmost importance; consequently we provide a wide array of academic and extracurricular activities, coupled with the proper
guidance, to help each child find his/her path to success.
At North Oconee High School, our students come first. We are about rigor, relevance, and relationships and any visitor to NOHS will see this
mantra posted around our school. We constantly look for ways to best serve our student population by asking not what is easiest for adults,
but what is best for our students. For example, our 4 x 4 modified hybrid block is a difficult master schedule for our guidance and
administrative team to build and maintain, but we continue to use this type of schedule because we know that it is the best one for our
student population. Our faculty members are available before and after school to provide extra help and tutoring. Our faculty has embraced
technology, and our expectation is that all of our teachers have a web presence. Furthermore, some teachers have embraced practices such
as the flipped classroom as their daily practice. Another aspect that shows we are living our mission and vision is the number of
extracurricular opportunities that our students have on a daily basis. Other examples of our faculty and staff living out this mission, vision,
and belief set occur each and every day within the walls of our school building.
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