Vision Statement

Our Vision: (To be revised 2007-2008)

Van Wyck Junior High School will:

  1. Provide a learning environment that is comprehensive, challenging, purposeful, integrated and standards based.
     
  2. Inform and involve parents of middle-level students in their children's education by helping them understand the learning standards their children must meet, the instructional program, their children's progress, and how to help their children at home with schoolwork, school decisions, and successful development through adolescence.
     
  3. Integrate technology into the educational program so that it supports student learning.
     
  4. Have teacher teams sharing responsibility for the education and personal development of a common group of students. Have common planning time for teachers and teaching teams sharing responsibility for a common group of students.
     
  5. Provide opportunities for students to participate in community service activities.
     
  6. Create a school culture of mutual support and collective responsibility for the educational and personal development of every student.