Creating a Culture of Student Success Core Values:

• Embrace a strategic developmental “personalized” approach as a core strategy for successful reform necessary to make accelerated progress toward decreasing dropout rates and increasing graduation rates.
• Emphasize respect, responsibility, independence, and integrity as the foundation for creating environments focused on student success.
• Engage school staff, students, parents, employers, and community members as stakeholders joining together to foster positive environments that emphasize, encourage, and engender student success.
• “Fold in” existing school career activities, programs, and resources with “Creating a Culture of Student Success” initiative components to achieve student success and continuous improvement on a large scale.
• Embrace the entire student population, not just those “at risk”, focusing on academic and career success for all students.  No students regardless of academic ability should graduate high school or college undecided about their futures.
• Create environments where students acquire and utilize effective decision-making skills while being provided reflection opportunities to continuously assess changing interests.
• Support the use of individual Student Success Planners that help address the interests, abilities, needs, and goals of students as they collect important information necessary for making realistic personal, educational, and career decisions that are achievable.
• Access school and community resources and support systems to help students create “success teams” to connect them and secure support from a wide range of individuals, programs, and services to address potential obstacles which, if ignored, could lead to failure or dropping out.
• Reengage students who fall behind in credits, skills, and/or attitude toward learning by providing bonding activities to improve performance and decrease deviant behaviors.
• Address, establish, and publicize persistence and completion expectations along with the results that indicate that outcomes from students’ decisions are key indicators of the effectiveness of success cultures.

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