Welcome to the Frank L. Smart School Handbook

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9:00am - 3:35pm

Frank L. Smart Mission Statement
The staff is entrusted to provide educational experiences in an atmosphere that enables all students to achieve academic skills and social behaviors that prepare them to be responsible and successful citizens.

Belief Statements
We believe learning experiences for young adolescents should:

  • Address there varies intellectual, physical, social, emotional, and moral development.
  • Open doors to new ideas that invoke curiosity, the desire to explore and at times, awe and wonder.
  • Develop caring, responsible, and ethical citizens who practice democratic principles.

Further we advocate learning experiences which:

  • Value the dignity and diversity of all individuals.
  • Use the full range of communication skills and technologies in purposeful contexts.
  • Involve students in meaningful service that encourages them to make a difference in the world around them.

Such learning experiences require environments in which

  • Challenging content in partnership with appropriate learning strategies becomes the key to significant learning.
  • Faulty is empowered and supported in creating developmentally responsive curriculum and instructional approaches.
  • The learning community expands beyond the school.

Because of these convictions we believe the following conditions should exist:

  • Students explore integrated themes that engage them in serious and rigorous study.
  • The staff is organized in ways that encourage ongoing collaboration.
  • All staff helps and participates in long-term professional growth opportunities.

Long Range District Goals

  • Increase student achievement in mathematics.
  • Increase student achievement in reading.
  • Increase student achievement in science.
  • Reduce the gap in students achievement among ethnic groups and among other groups reported to the state.
  • by 2004, ninety percent of the third grader students will read at grade level or above by the end of third grade.
  • Increase the amount of quality instructional time by decreasing classroom disruptions and student behavior problems.
  • Increase the percentage of students who avoid drug and alcohol use.
  • Increase student awareness of skills critical to school achievement and career success.

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