Vision
This community will produce the best school system in Arizona

Mission
Providing optimal educational opportunities for ALL STUDENTS to prepare themselves for a productive future

Beliefs
The Flagstaff Unified School District Believes.

Our public schools have the potential to provide the best education for every student. Educators, the community, families, and students are responsible partners in the educational process:

a. Educators are responsible for providing optimal educational opportunities for students to become critical thinkers and self-directed learners.
b. The community is responsible for providing resources and support for students to achieve.
c. Families are responsible for being the students' first and most important teachers.
d. Students are responsible for making use of the educational opportunities. Educators, community, families and students are responsible for providing safe, healthy, and supportive environments. Students are to be respected for their individuality, uniqueness, and the importance of their role in the future.
Schools are to provide comprehensive curricula that ensure learning opportunities for all students. Schools are to provide formal opportunities for students to further develop ethical behavioral characteristics: honesty, integrity, respect for others and themselves, fairness, caring for others, responsible citizenship, and accountability. Schools are to have a positive influence on students, even those who lack adequate support of family and community. Families are to help children develop self-respect, which the schools are to reinforce.Students can and do learn in a variety of ways and at different rates. Students are to value life-long learning and its connection to real world applications in a changing global society. The Flagstaff community needs to develop understanding and respect for diversity.Educators are to hold themselves and each other accountable to the highest standards of their profession. Community is business, industry, taxpayers, social service entities, youth organizations, etc.

Goals
Educators, the community, families, and students are equally responsible for attainment of the following goals.

-Provide students the basic skills needed to rank in the top 1/3 of Arizona schools in scholastic achievement (reading, writing, and mathematics). -Provide safe, healthy, and supportive environments for students to learn (refer to Belief Statements #3). Provide comprehensive curricula to allow all students regardless of thnicity, race, origin, or handicap to prepare for their future, whether that be college, technical school, or the work force. The comprehensive curriculum includes civics , industrial arts, geography, mathematics, government , science, history, technological literacy, English, dance, foreign language, health/physical education, speech, music, theater, visual arts. This curriculum should be integrated and encourage the development of self-esteem, self-discovery, and artistic discipline the development of the ability to empathize, to take and give criticism, and to relate positively with peers experiential learning to include the development of skills in problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking students to take responsibility in the collaborative process.
-Provide developmentally appropriate activities to enhance basic skills, extra- and co-curricular experiences.
-Develop ethics programs at each site (refer to Belief Statements #6). Make program and/or instructional decisions based on current educational research.
-Develop community graduation criteria which demonstrates competency in basic skills, problem solving, critical thinking, communication skills and citizenship.
-Assess student academic achievement at all levels utilizing portfolios.
-Develop accountability within the community for the quality of our Schools.
-Provide opportunities for increased involvement by families in the students academic and related activities.
-Provide child development information and support to families to improve educational readiness.
-Implement a system for those students receiving inadequate support outside the school.
-Provide a comprehensive system for FUSD employees to develop, improve, and continuously evaluate themselves.
-Maintain compensation, mentoring, and recognition programs to attract and retain competent employees.
-Define authority and responsibility between site and District to support FUSD's mission and beliefs.
-Conduct a review of FUSD's practices followed by any necessary re-allocation of human and capital resources to ensure support of FUSD's vision, mission, beliefs, and goals. Included in the Goals 2000 Educate America Act as written into federal law on March 24, 1994
"Portfolios" are defined as a sample of students academic and creative endeavors which show evidence of students progress and learning.

District Mission & Goals approved by the Governing Board June, 1995