What do we value?

In each of your buildings, you will see our Waukesha values on display. Have you ever really taken the time to absorb what these values really mean? Are you walking the talk and talking the walk when it comes to your leadership around these values?
I have included the visual as well as the link below from our website. You are a valuable part of the School District of Waukesha because you have exhibited these values. During those days when you forget your purpose, reset yourself and dig into living out these values. In your classrooms, in your daily life, with students, with colleagues, with family members...having a core set of values that drives what you do, is an important moral compass for all of us to reflect on this month.

Innovation: Those actions that significantly challenge key assumptions about schools and the way they operate; to question the "box" in which we operate and to innovate outside of it as well as within.

Rigor: Using inquiry-based, collaborative strategies to challenge and engage all students in content resulting in increasingly complex levels of understanding.

Teamwork: Cooperative effort by the members of a group or team to achieve a common goal.

Communication: A means of transferring information and ideas that is clear, consistent, concise, comprehensive and accessible.

High Expectations for All: Expectations that overcome biases and belief systems that lead to low expectations; verbal and nonverbal behaviors that challenge all students and communicate to all students that they are capable learners.

https://sdw.waukesha.k12.wi.us/domain/547

Professionalism: Competency within one's profession, demonstrating effective collaboration with others, integrity, and an awareness of diversity in service to students and the profession.

Shared Responsibility: Collaboration between educators, families, and other parts of the community will ensure that all children are encourages and supported through the educational process. The contribution of each may not be separable from that of the other(s). 

Personalized Learning:  Fosters a deep approach by considering the core proficiencies, authentic learner engagement, student choice, quality continuums of learning and the role of technology.