1. Rappahannock County Public Schools
Comprehensive Plan

2. VISION
In partnership with the community, the schools are committed to inspiring in every student a passion for lifelong learning, personal well-being, and the skill sets of productive, engaged, globally-aware citizens.

3. Mission We are committed to instilling in our students
academic proficiency,
the ability to think critically and creatively,
effective communication,
 global awareness,
strategic problem solving, and
responsible citizenship.

4. Goal
Our overarching goal is to prepare every student for graduation ensuring that each student has mastered 21st Century Skills needed to be responsible, productive workers and citizens.

5. The Rappahannock Motto of Leadership “Lead, Inspire, Grow”
Focus
How do we lead? We lead by developing leadership skills that promote the students’ understanding and acceptance of their environment, their classmates, and their responsibility to the world around them.
How do we inspire? We inspire by becoming careful listeners, focusing our attention to the needs of our students and to the needs of our community so we can provide our students with a springboard for lifelong learning and acceptance of others through developmentally appropriate tasks.
How do we grow? As educators, we need personal and professional relationships with our community, our students, their families, and our school family. Strong relationships evolve with careful and prescriptive doses of commitment, accountability, and respect for one another, focusing on common goals that are student centered.

6. Continuing our Focus for 2014-2015
Promote academic rigor and student excellence
Differentiated instruction, classroom pacing, vertical and horizontal alignment, benchmarking, increased SOL performance, exposure to real life concepts and skill development

7. Professional development for staff and modeling the concepts of lifelong learners
June/July Staff Workshops HS Math instructors: Error analysis, shared repository for responses HS English instructors: Vertical alignment grades 8-12, shared documents, explored student outcomes ES Math instructors: math training for “number talks”, meta cognition skills and promoting kinesthetic learning ES Exploratory: Project Based Learning ES Pre-K Staff: “Big Day” for Pre-K curriculum, unpacking, and alignment Interns: 3 teachers participated in summer internship programs for degree completions

8. Promote diversity, enrichment, community involvement, and student success
Summer School: Elementary and High School 94 participants Community Involvement – Headwaters offered enrichment activities Kindergarten Jump start, remediation, high school credit courses, Project Graduation

9. Focus
We will continue the “can do” model embracing the concepts of LEAD, INSPIRE, and GROW!