• 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