Van Sickle Academy Mission Statement
Van Sickle Academy will engage our students in a rigorous curriculum that builds resiliency, strong character, and core academic skills that will successfully prepare our students for the most competitive high schools, colleges and future careers.
Van Sickle Academy Vision Statement
Van Sickle Academy will guide all our students through personal growth and academic success; to prepare them for high school and beyond while embracing their diversity and life experiences.
Van Sickle Academy Instructional Vision
In our classrooms, students will engage in rigorous activities focused on building understanding, developing critical thinking skills and leveraging literacy skills. These skills will empower students to struggle productively and take charge of their education. Students will also use these skills to produce effective evidence based reasoning and discourse. By using best practices, students will be prepared for real world opportunities.
Van Sickle Academy Equity and Anti-Racism Statement
Van Sickle Academy rejects all forms of racism as damaging to our mission, vision, values, and goals. We are dedicated to the following principles:
1. Creating and nourishing a school community that shares the responsibility to address, eradicate, and avoid actions, choices, and outcomes that result from and disseminate racism.
2. Rejecting inequitable practices and fostering the exceptional gifts, aptitudes, and interests of every child to end the prognostic value of social or cultural factors, such as race, class, or gender.
3. Respecting and embracing the diversity and life experiences of all community members to support the school’s mission, vision, values, and goals.
4. Recognizing that racism is often exacerbated by other forms of discrimination.
1. Creating and nourishing a school community that shares the responsibility to address, eradicate, and avoid actions, choices, and outcomes that result from and disseminate racism.
2. Rejecting inequitable practices and fostering the exceptional gifts, aptitudes, and interests of every child to end the prognostic value of social or cultural factors, such as race, class, or gender.
3. Respecting and embracing the diversity and life experiences of all community members to support the school’s mission, vision, values, and goals.
4. Recognizing that racism is often exacerbated by other forms of discrimination.