Mission+&+Vision

Mission and Vision New West High School

Mission The mission of the New West High School is to prepare students, their families, and communities with the 21st Century skills and dispositions necessary to create sustainable and prosperous futures.

Vision New West High School is committed to a process of continual engagement and innovation, co-constructing culturally relevant and personally meaningful learning experiences for students with which to create ownership and build community.

Our school is guided by these fundamental principles of a sustainable school:

Financial Sustainability: dedicated to long term planning; elimination of duplicative efforts; commitment to efficiency on all planning levels.

Physical Sustainability: school building and grounds maintained through cooperative efforts of students/district/community; efficiency upgrades are part of continuous improvement process.

Environmental Sustainability: infuse sustainable methodologies and goals across the curriculum; green your life/green your school/green your community through service, study, and employment.

Global Sustainability: no one works alone in the world for change, all are connected; curriculum offers global connectivity with local impact.

Workforce Sustainability: develop the skills and dispositions necessary for the 21st Century marketplace, community development, and personal citizenship in a diverse culture.

Community Leadership: sustainable communities require leadership skill training at multiple levels of scale within a larger system of ecological relations.

Student as Community Member: Community accountability not just accountable to teacher or abstract, impersonal test. Complete service learning contracts. Celebrate completion of goals. Youth gain community acceptance and become mentors to next generation.