Parkway School District Alternative Programs:
The Parkway School District, in keeping with its mission of ensuring that "all students" become "capable, curious and confident learners," offers a number of alternative educational programs:
Alternative Discipline Center (ADC)
Missouri Options Program (MOP)
Collectively, these alternative programs are known as Pathways.
Parkway's Mission, Vision, and Learning Principles
Mission:
The mission of the Parkway School District is to ensure all students are capable, curious and confident learners who understand and respond to the challenges of an ever-changing world.
Vision:
We succeed when all our students and graduates are:
- able to transfer their prior learning to new demands, in and out of school
- fully prepared for their next educational challenges
- creative, thoughtful and effective problem solvers
- increasingly self-directed, skilled and persistent as learners
- literate and critical consumers of information and ideas
- articulate speakers and effective listeners
- acting out of a strong sense of personal, social and civic responsibility
- always seeking to understand the views, values and cultures of others
- working skillfully with others to achieve common goals
- pursuing a personal direction based on an understanding of their talents and interests
Learning Principles:
The conditions under which optimal learning takes place are observable in our classrooms and confirmed by educational research. Therefore, as a learning institution, we commit to ensuring learners:
- understand the purpose and outcomes of their learning as well as the standards required for success
- transfer their learning to new situations beyond the classroom and school
- make meaning of content within helpful conceptual frameworks and multiple contexts
- use feedback to improve products, performances, key skills, and transfer of learning
- self-assess and self-adjust their learning through reflection against rigorous goals
- construct new knowledge by building on prior knowledge and activating earlier ideas
- test ideas, take intellectual risks, and learn from mistakes in pursuit of understanding
- experience learning challenges that match their abilities, needs, and interests
- realize that the capacity to learn is not fixed; ability and understanding can always improve
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