Core Statement
Carroll County Public Schools: Building the Future
Core Values
The Board of Education establishes the following core values.
- The Pursuit of Excellence
- Life-long Learning and Success
- A Safe and Orderly Learning Environment
- Community Participation
- Fairness, Honesty, and Respect
- Continuous Improvement
- Reflecting the priorities, beliefs, and mores of our local community
Core Beliefs
The Board of Education believes that the Carroll County Public Schools system operates effectively and efficiently when:
The greater Carroll County community:
- Values the importance of a quality education
- Supports educational initiatives at home
- Volunteers in schools
- Forms partnerships with schools to support system initiatives
All central office staff:
- Establish and maintain a framework for organizational decisions to be based on empirical data
- Establish and maintain a safe and orderly environment for students and staff
- Provide adequate resources that are equitably distributed
- Provide an equitable educational opportunity for all students
- Communicate effectively with all stakeholders
- Enforce accountability for system initiatives
- Models effective leadership and professional respect
- Provide a diverse program of studies with a global perspective designed to meet students’ educational goals
- Coordinate professional development opportunities that are relevant, site-base, job embedded, aligned with the tenets of cultural proficiency, and meet the needs of all staff.
- Empower employees, students, and communities to make school-based decisions within an established framework
All school staff:
- Welcome their school community
- Establish positive home and school relationships
- Provide a safe and orderly learning environment for students and staff
- Work to ensure that every child succeeds
- Display cultural proficiency
- Prepare students with a global education
- Place priority on the educational needs of students
- Motivate students to learn
- Recognize the unique learning styles of each student
- Facilitate learning by encouraging, prompting, and interacting with students
- Establish and maintain positive and appropriate relationships with students
- Ensure learning by providing instruction that meets each student’s individual needs
- Support student success
- Encourage students to make choices that provide challenges
- Assess student progress through both formal and informal methods and then provide appropriate and targeted data-driven instruction
- Engage students in rigorous and relevant instruction
All students:
- Enroll in coursework that prepares them to be career – college ready
- Obtain the skills to thrive as independent 21st century learners
- Become knowledgeable, responsible, and caring citizens
- Demonstrate respect for the learning environment and other individuals
- Reach their potential
- Develop effective communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
- Participate in varied co-curricular and extracurricular activities
Revised 9/24/12