Our District
Mission/Vision Statement:
West Branch-Rose City Area Schools
The School of Choice for Educational Excellence...
Your Future Begins Here!
Belief Statements
The basic beliefs of the district—those things that we believe of utmost importance, providing guidance for how we behave and relate to others. The following beliefs were created during the Strategic Planning Team Retreat Workshop.
We Believe:
- We must prepare all students to be career and college ready.
- Every child has a right to a safe and caring learning environment.
- We must use innovative strategies for all students to reach their maximum potential.
- We must develop knowledgeable, caring, respectful, and responsible citizens.
- In preparing students to face changes in local and global society.
- We must embrace innovations in education.
- In a collaborative parent, staff, student and community partnership.
- We must offer a variety of programs to develop the whole child.
West Branch-Rose City Area Schools students experience care, support, safety, and membership.
- CARE: Students experience support and respect that establishes an empathetic culture that values and accepts differences and diversity.
- SUPPORT: Students experience opportunities that promote the development of individual goals, passion, success, and meaningful relationships.
- SAFETY: Students experience an environment that meets their emotional, social, and physical needs, and feel comfortable being their authentic selves.
- MEMBERSHIP: Students experience a sense of value and purpose in our district community.
Care:❖ Building positive relationships with all students❖ Treating students fairly and with respect ❖ Knowing students well ❖ Valuing students as individuals and showing concern for what is happening in their lives ❖ Taking interest and investing in students ❖ Being accessible ❖ Seeing through the eyes of students ❖ Establishing a trusting relationship ❖ Providing recognition and connection | Support:❖ Fostering opportunities to pursue dreams and reach goals by believing in their future❖ Providing instruction related to district values ❖ Understanding and applying principles of positive behavior supports ❖ Mentoring ❖ Advocating ❖ Developing and implementing a multi-tiered system of supports responsive to student needs ❖ Systematic monitoring and use of data to identify needs and connect students to supports |
Safety:❖ Clear expectations for physical and emotional safety are consistently taught, reinforced, and modeled❖ Proactive plans to respond to and support needs related to crisis and trauma | Membership:❖ Feeling a sense of school pride❖ Ownership of their learning ❖ A sense of belonging with a meaningful purpose ❖ Students as active participants ❖ Community partnerships ❖ Appreciation of cultural diversity |
West Branch Rose City Area Schools
P.O. Box 308
West Branch, MI 48661
