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Hillsboro-Deering High School Core Values and Beliefs
We, at HDHS, are committed to the following:
Community
We can achieve greater things when working together.
Honesty, respect, courage, and active listening are essential for effective communication.
When every individual embraces responsibility and accountability, we will achieve excellence.
Personalization
Each individual possesses unique talents and should be supported in the development of those talents.
All students have the ability to achieve.
Students must be actively engaged in learning.
Creativity, curiosity, excellence in and life-long love of learning must be embraced and supported.
Progress
Making progress each and every day is essential for a happy, healthy, productive life.
Achieving excellence requires reflection, goal-setting, discipline, creativity, accountability and perseverance.
Purpose
Finding a purpose in life is essential for finding health and happiness.
Gratitude, kindness, and service to others are essential for the health of individuals and communities.
Students must develop skills necessary for employment, responsible citizenship and, if they so choose, further education in order to secure their happiness and live effective lives.
Academic Expectations
Application of Real World Skills: Students will integrate knowledge and skills for real-world problems and applications. Students will demonstrate strategies for maintaining physical, mental and economic health.
Communication: Students will communicate effectively using multiple forms and mediums for a variety of academic, civic, personal, career, and artistic purposes.
Inquiry: Students will develop and display reading, research, listening, and observation skills as well as aesthetic awareness through engagement with authentic, inquiry-based experiences.
Reason and Insight: Students will think critically, creatively, adaptively, and reflectively to solve problems and enhance their understanding of the world around them.
Utilization of Tools and Technology: Students will responsibly use tools and technology to enhance and express their learning.
Social and Civic Expectations
Work Together: Students will work collaboratively while embracing individual accountability.
Students will display respect for individual differences and beliefs.
Do the Right Thing: Students will demonstrate ethical conduct and take responsibility for their own actions.
Students will demonstrate awareness of their rights and respect the rights of others.
Get Involved: Students will become active and informed citizens to make positive contributions in a democratic society and a global community.
Accreditation
Hillsboro-Deering High School is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). NEASC is a non-governmental, nationally recognized organization whose affiliates include elementary through collegiate institutions offering post-graduate programs.
Accreditation by NEASC means that an institution meets or exceeds the criteria established by a commission. This is established by a voluntary peer group review process. An accredited school or college is one that has available the necessary resources to achieve its stated purposes through appropriate educational programs, is substantially doing so, and gives evidence that it will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. The integrity of the institution is also addressed through the accreditation process. Accreditation by NEASC is not partial, but applies to the institution as a whole. As such, it is not a guarantee of the quality of every course or program offered, nor the competence of individual graduates. Rather, it provides reasonable assurances about the quality of opportunities available to students enrolled in the institution.
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