Our goal is to provide the best possible learning experiences for our students. With the support of the community, we give students the opportunity to learn and we encourage them to develop the basic skills needed to contribute intellectually and morally to a highly technical and socially demanding society.
We strive to provide educational experiences suited to the ability of each individual. We expect students to demonstrate academic competence relative to their ability. Furthermore, we seek to challenge students to the limits of their capability. We encourage them to develop a personal set of positive values. We promote a sense of personal worth, accomplishment, and social commitment in students, by providing a range of social and educational experiences within the school and community. Upon graduation, students should have acquired an inquisitive attitude toward the world and a desire to continue to learn and to contribute to society.
Realizing that basic education must go beyond academic offerings, we provide opportunities for vocational exploration. By providing introductory levels in computer sciences, business, fine arts, industrial arts, independent living skills, and library science skills, we hope to stimulate career develop- ment as well as provide the basic skills necessary for further study. Hinsdale, in cooperation with the Cheshire Center of Applied Science and Technology, provides more advanced vocational training with the goal of enabling students to attain entry-level job skills. Every student should have developed a specific goal for further training, and have developed the knowledge and skills to obtain that goal.
Because our ultimate purpose is to benefit one another, we feel it is important that students participate in extracurricular activities, and that the community play an active role in the school. By prompting parent and family involvement, and by providing a wide range of learning experiences, we encourage students to develop tolerance and respect for different cultures and points of view.
Finally, we treat each student as a unique individual. Our strongest tools as a small school are the communication and mutual respect we can develop in the educational process.
To blend these aspects of education into a philosophically unified approach to learning has been and remains one of our major goals.
Our objectives, therefore, are:
1. To provide an environment which facilitates learning and fosters respect.
2. To provide a dedicated group of educators, administrators, and support staff who are accountable to students and their mutual goals.
3. To engage students in the process of identifying and prioritizing their own educational and career goals through small group advisory meetings with staff members.
4. To promote parental involvement and cooperation.
5. To accurately identify and effectively meet the needs of all students with varied goals and abilities.
6. To equip each student with communication, computational, critical- thinking and problem-solving skills.
7. To challenge students to the limits of their capabilities.
8. To engage students in community and extracurricular activities.
9. To support programs that build character and moral growth.
10. To promote opportunities for more diverse exposure to career choices.
11. To engage the support and participation of the community in the activities of the school.
12. To instill in students a sense of purpose and pride in their school and community.
