Lexington High School Mission Statement
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Mission Statement of Lexington High School
Lexington High School is a learning community committed to developing well-educated, healthy, engaged students in a respectful, safe, supportive environment. We encourage the effort and imagination necessary to acquire knowledge and develop academic habits of mind. We maintain our high expectations with a challenging and varied curriculum, inspired by curiosity, enriched by clubs and activities. At the same time we emphasize the need to reduce unhealthy stress and unproductive competition in pursuit of balanced lives. We honor diversity and individual achievement; we promote collaboration and community service. Together we strive to model behavior that will help make our campus a microcosm of the world we hope to create.
The faculty, staff, and administration of Lexington High School, with the support of parents and the community are committed to helping students achieve the following academic, social, and civic expectations.
Academic Expectations
Students at Lexington High School will
•	write clearly and effectively, producing work that is informative, well organized, and appropriate to its purpose and audience.
•	read and comprehend varied materials and be able to interpret and apply what they have read.
•	listen actively and respond to communications through inquiry, discussion, writing, and various forms of art.
•	speak clearly and effectively in a variety of contexts including academic discourse and oral presentations.
•	gather data and critically evaluate their content, source, and relevance.
•	reason logically, using appropriate qualitative or quantitative methods, and use their analysis to answer questions and to solve problems.
•	employ technology to gather, organize, and communicate information, to create and share visual images, and to investigate and solve problems.
•	demonstrate an understanding of the political, social, cultural, and scientific contexts of knowledge.
•	demonstrate practical applications of knowledge.
•	demonstrate awareness of aesthetic principles such as theme, motif, pattern, and symmetry.
Social and Civic Expectations
Students at Lexington High School will
•	learn to make appropriate and healthy choices that foster their personal well being, and will seek support when needed for academic, social, physical, mental, and emotional issues.
•	demonstrate self-awareness, tolerance, and respect while cultivating social skills that reflect self-assurance, kindness, and tact.
•	act with integrity and be accountable to themselves, to the school, and to the community at large.
•	participate in meaningful community service activities that expand their life experience and benefit others.
•	act as responsible citizens, recognizing the important stake they have in the school community while finding constructive opportunities to influence its direction.
Approved by vote of the Lexington High School Faculty on March 13, 2006 Approved by vote of the Lexington School Council March 20, 2006 Approved by vote of the Lexington School Committee April 26, 2006
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