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Somers Point School District
Mission and Vision
Somers Point Board of Education MissionThe mission of the Somers Point Board of Education is to foster life-long learning by encouraging our students to discover their fullest potential to become proactive citizens. This is accomplished through:
- Offering diverse, challenging, effective and progressive programs in a safe, nurturing environment
- Adequate facilities and resources
- Our students mastering the knowledge and tools needed for success.
- Educational partnership of home, school and community members
Somers Point Board of Education Vision
To be recognized as the pre-eminent catalyst of successful, life-long learners throughout our community. This will be achieved through:
- A commitment to progressive educational programs
- A dedication to high student achievement
- A focus on community awareness and participation
- Valuing the integrity of all individuals
- Inclusion of all constituents including students, parents, teachers, administrators, Board of Education and community members (citizens, businesses and government)
Somers Point Board of Education Commitments, Values & Beliefs
Empower each student to make responsible choices, meet challenges, achieve personal success, and to contribute to a global society as they apply the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards to become autonomous, lifelong learners who are literate, problem solvers across all disciplines.
We believe that our empowered learners:
- Participate in educational programs that are designed to meet the needs of learners while providing challenging activities in the context of real life situations
- Are aware of community issues and take part in activities to better their community
- Acquire basic skills in obtaining information, thinking critically, solving problems and communicating effectively
- Develop intellectual curiosity and the ability to access information as needed
- Become reflective learners that have an understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses
- Develop the aptitudes and skills to adjust to a changing world and an unpredictable future
- Are lifetime learners who value and accept learning as a continuing and dynamic process affecting all aspects of life.
Somers Point District Goals for Students
The Somers Point Public School District endeavors to prepare every student to:
- Acquire basic skills in obtaining information, thinking critically, solving problems and communicating effectively
- Acquire a stock of basic information concerning the principles of the physical, biological and social sciences; the historical record of human achievements and failures; and current social issues
- Become an effective and responsible contributor to the decision-making processes and activities of the community, state, country and world
- Acquire the ability and the desire to express him/herself creatively in one or more of the arts and to appreciate the aesthetic expressions of other people
- Acquire the knowledge, habits and attitudes that promote personal and public health, both physical and mental
- Acquire the capacities for playing satisfying and responsible roles in family life
- Develop career awareness throughout the curriculum
- Develop intellectual curiosity and a zest for knowledge
- Acquire the understanding of and the ability to form responsible relations with a wide range of other people, including characteristics different from his/her own
- Acquire an understanding of ethical principles and values and the ability to apply them to his/her own life
- Develop an understanding of his/her own worth, abilities, potentials and limitations
- Develop attitudes and acquire the skills to adjust to a changing world in an unpredictable future.