Mission
NPS engages and empowers students to lead academically successful, socially responsible, compassionate, and purposeful lives. We will foster a thriving learning community that cultivates growth through:
Engaged Learning: Provide students rigorous instruction (highly academic learning experiences) that is connected to their lived experiences and the real world making learning valuable and relevant .
Empowering: Instruction affirms, creates a sense of social and emotional safety and honors all students and communities of color including their ethnic, racial, and linguistic identities and develops all students’ abilities to recognize and critique social inequities.
Vision
Every day, every NPS student is actively being equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to become a contributing member of their community, while being highly prepared to thrive in life, and pursue their career or college aspirations upon graduation.
In order to accomplish our mission, it is critical to have a widely shared vision of effective teaching that is focused on rigorous expectations, relevant curriculum, and respectful relationships.
We know that teaching is effective when:
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Students employ 21st-century knowledge and skills.
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Students are engaged in authentic learning and apply their knowledge and skills to new situations and challenges.
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Students’ individual needs are identified through multiple measures and addressed through current standards-based curriculum and research-based instruction.
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Students meet or exceed curricular standards and demonstrate continual growth within the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.
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Students are independent learners and thinkers who are responsible and accountable for their learning and actions.
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Students, teachers, administrators, and parents demonstrate positive relationships through shared responsibility, collaboration, and mutual respect.
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Students are continually learning in safe and supportive environments.