Vision

We are a community of learners engaged in a passionate and imaginative quest for excellence.  Genuine learning must inspire lives of personal integrity in which we become agents of positive social change.

Core Values and Beliefs  

Edwin O. Smith High School is a community committeed to academic excellence, personal achievement and integrity.  Students are encouraged to respect diversity and become self-directed learners with a responsibility to contribute as literate members of an interdependent world.

Learning Expectations

Academic

Students at Edwin O. Smith High School will demonstrate:

• critical and inventive thinking;
• decision-making and problem-solving skill;
• reading and writing literacy;
• interative communication skills;
• visual, technological and information literacy;
• curiosity, creativity and collaboration.

Social and Civic Expectations

Students at Edwin O. Smith High School will demonstrate:

• cultural and civic literacy and global awareness;
• personal productivity and adaptability;
• interpersonal skills that actively support and contribute to the community;
• health literacy.

Adopted: 09/01/87                                                                                      Revised:08/04/98

Revised 11/05/03                                                                                         Revised:  04/07/09