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Our Mission
The purpose of the Troy School District
is to ensure learning for all members of the school community.
Our Vision
The Troy School District will become an exemplary learning
community that supports innovation and is committed to continuous
improvement. The Troy School District will be a place where
a collaborative community develops curriculum, instructional
strategies, and assessment to ensure all students learn.
Our exemplary learning community will:
- Create a collaborative culture that ensures all students
learn.
• A climate that fosters instructional collaboration
• A community of trust, mutual respect, empathy.
• An appreciation for diversity
• A physically safe and well-maintained learning environment
- Implement a relevant and rigorous curriculum.
• Lessons aligned to the current curriculum benchmarks,
grade level content expectations (GLCE) or high school content
expectations (HSCE)
• A comprehensive curriculum designed to ensure that
all students have opportunities to exceed local, state,
and national standards
• Innovative programs developed from current research
and instructional trends.
- Continuously research, create, evaluate, and adapt best
practice instructional strategies to ensure learning for
all students.
• Purposeful use of instructional time
• Instructional strategies that meet the needs of
all learners
- Use ongoing assessments as instruments to design and
adapt instruction that ensures quality learning.
• Design formative and summative assessments based
on current research.
• Assessments that measure the curriculum
• Assessments that consider all learning styles
• Assessment that include multiple levels of thinking
Our Goals
- All Troy School District students will create and pursue
personal growth plans.
- All Troy School District students will perceive they are
accepted at school regardless of cultural, ethnic, gender,
academic, or other individual differences as measured by
a validated survey.
- The Troy School District will score in the top 5% on all
subtests of the Michigan Department of Education assessment
programs.
- All Troy School District “No Child Left Behind”
(NCLB) subgroups will make Adequate Yearly Progress on all
subtests of the Michigan Department of Education assessment
programs.
Shared Beliefs
- The Troy School District is committed to excellence.
- The Troy School district is a key element in the community
and has a responsibility to be a resource for enhancing
the quality of life for all citizens.
- The educational process is a partnership with the entire
community including family, business, and community organizations.
- The educational programs will provide each student the
best opportunity to learn, to develop personally and to
experience success.
- Public education is fundamental to the preservation and
advancement of freedom, democracy, and an effective free
enterprise system.
- Positive self-concept and respect for others is fundamental
to teaching and learning.
- The educational process will allow for the unique qualities
of each individual.
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Our Mission
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