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:

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

Social and Civic Expectations

Students at Edwin O. Smith High School will demonstrate:

• cultural and global awareness and adaptability;
• civic literacy, personal productivity and 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