As a school corporation of Iowa, the Schleswig Community School District, acting through its board of directors, is dedicated to promoting an equal opportunity for a quality public education to its students. The board’s ability may be limited by the school district's ability and willingness to furnish financial support in cooperation with student’s parents and school district community. The board is also dedicated to providing the opportunity to develop a healthy social, intellectual, emotional, and physical self-concept in a learning environment that provides guidance to, and encourages critical thinking in, the students for a lifetime.
The board endeavors, through the dedication of the school district's resources, to encourage students, who come to the school district from a variety of backgrounds, to look forward to the time when they will have jobs, homes, families, places in the school district community, and attain recognition as individuals. In order to achieve this goal, the board will seek qualified employees dedicated to development of their professional skills for the betterment of the education program and for the expertise for educational productivity.
Instruction and curriculum are the key elements of a public education. Critical thinking and problem solving skills that will assist the students' preparation for life is instructed as part of a sequentially coordinated curriculum. The school district strives to prepare students for employment, to discover and nurture creative talent and to prepare them to meet and cope with social change in an atmosphere conducive to learning.
The support and involvement of the home and the school district community are essential to achieve educational excellence in the school district. The school district strives to maintain an active relationship with the home and the school district community to create within the students an awareness of dignity and worth of the individual, civic responsibility and respect for authority.
Date Board Adopted
Date Board Updated/Reviewed 2/14/2022
Legal Reference: Iowa Code §§ 256.11.
In providing the education program of the school district the board shall strive to meet its overall goal of providing the students an opportunity to develop a healthy social, intellectual, emotional, and physical self-concept in a learning environment that provides guidance to and encourages critical thinking in the students for a lifetime.
In striving to meet this overall goal, the objectives of the education program shall be to provide students with and opportunity to be:
1.Self-Directed Learners, who use positive core values to create a positive vision for themselves and their future, set priorities and achievable goals, create options for themselves, monitor and evaluate their progress, and assume responsibility for their actions.
2.Community Contributors, who contribute their time, energies, and talents to improving the welfare of others and quality of life in their diverse communities.
3. Complex Thinkers, Who identify, access, integrate, and use available resources and information and modern technology, to reason, make decisions, and solve complex problems in a variety of contexts, and can communicate proficiently with speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills.
4.Collaborative Workers, who use effective leadership and group skills to develop and manage interpersonal relationships within culturally and organizationally diverse settings.
5.Quality Producers, who create intellectual, artistic, practical, and physical products which reflect originality, high standards, and the use of advanced technologies.
An advisory committee of representatives of the school district community and the school district shall be appointed to make recommendations for the goals and objectives of the education program.
The superintendent shall report annually to the committee and board as required by law.
Date Board Adopted 10/24/2017
Date Board Reviewed: 2/14/2022