MISSION, VISION, VALUES

Vision

Our vision is a high-quality workforce that values professional learning and prepares our students to contribute to a diverse and changing world.

Mission

Our mission is to provide continuous and focused learning for all employees, serve as a school system professional learning network, and to advance individual and organizational development in order to ensure achievement for every student.

We Believe That:

• Effective, on-going professional learning is essential to school improvement and student success.
• Appropriate professional learning is developed, implemented, and evaluated in accordance with the Standards for Professional Learning,and is aligned with the Goal and Initiatives outlined in the AACPS Strategic Plan.
• Professional learning encourages all employees to share the responsibility for both individual and organizational growth and to be accountable for defining and achieving standards of excellence.
• Effective professional development honors diverse learning needs.
• Professional learning should be:
• focused
• varied
• job-embedded
• collaborative
• sustained over time