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Our District Goals

The mission of the Norfolk Public Schools is to equip all students to succeed in a complex changing world.

The district has established the following lifelong goals for students. Graduates of Norfolk Public Schools will be:
1) Academically prepared learners who have achieved basic educational skills and can apply them to the attainment of lifelong goals.
2) Critical and creative thinkers who identify problems and/or situations, collect and analyze information to create opportunities and implement solutions for a changing and diversified world.
3) Effective communicators who interact productively with others in a variety of situations.
4) Quality producers who create and enhance ideas and products which reflect originality, high quality, and personal or social value.
5) Collaborative contributors who develop and manage interpersonal relationships to benefit self and others within the family, work, community, and global environment.
6) Responsible individuals who assume social, legal, and moral responsibility for their own actions.
7) Responsible citizens who take the initiative to contribute their time, energy, and talents to improve the welfare of themselves and others, and to enhance the quality of life in their local and global environments.
8) Lifelong learners who set priorities and achievable goals, create their own opportunities, and monitor/assess their own progress.

 
   

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