Mission

USD 417 employees, parents, and patrons through their cooperative efforts assure district students of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to develop into lifelong learners who respect themselves and others, contribute to their communities, and succeed in a changing world.

District Exit Outcomes

Basic Skills: Reads, communicates, and applies arithmetic and mathematical operations

A. Reading - locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules
B. Communicating - writes, listens, and speaks effectively
C. Arithmetic/Mathematics - performs basic computations and approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques

Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons

A. Creative Thinking - generates new ideas
B. Decision Making - specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternative
C. Problem Solving - recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action
D. Visualizes - organizes and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects, and other information
E. Knowing How to Learn - uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills
F. Reasoning - discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and applies it when solving a problem

Personal Qualities: Displays responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity and honesty, and civic-mindedness

A. Responsibility - exerts a high level of effort and perseveres towards goal attainment
B. Self-Esteem - believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self
C. Sociability - demonstrates understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness in group settings
D. Self-Management - assesses self accurately, sets personal goals, monitors progress. exhibits self-control, and accepts responsibility for actions
E. Integrity/Honesty - chooses ethical courses of action
F. Civic-Mindedness - takes an active role in community

Last Updated April 8, 2003

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