GLACIER’S VISION STATEMENT

The vision of Glacier is to create a rigorous, dynamic and accountable learning community that is built upon voluntary association, personalized student learning, high academic standards for all students and parent leadership. Glacier will accomplish these four complementary goals by providing all students and parents with: personal, experienced teacher guidance and support; powerful and proven instruction; ongoing, multiple modality assessments; and a large and growing inventory of high quality, standards aligned instructional resources that offer both breadth and depth in curriculum and auxiliary materials. As a result, students will develop the skills necessary to become responsible lifelong learners who understand personal dedication and desire as the keys for success.

GLACIER’S MISSION STATEMENT

Inspire member students to learn and grow to their potential and become responsible, contributing community members. Assist parents in the education of their students. Provide the community with a valid educational alternative. Equip rural students age 14-18 with two kinds of literacy necessary in the twenty-first century: the ability to read, write, speak, and calculate with clarity and precision and the ability to participate passionately and responsibly in the life of the community. Glacier High School Charter will enable students to become literate, self-motivated, lifelong learners by providing a multi-cultural, student-centered environment, in which all students will be held to high academic and behavioral standards, will work in collaborative relationships, both within and outside the school site/calendar, and will perform ser

GLACIER’S EXPECTED SCHOOL WIDE LEARNING RESULTS

To define who we are as a school and what we want to accomplish with students, Glacier High School Charter has adopted clearly defined E.S.L.R.’s (Expected Student Learning Results). E.S.L.R.’s by definition are broad based educational goals for all students. We use the acronym “ACTS” to demonstrate what students will seek to achieve.

A C T S – “Glacier High School students will be equipped to become:”
Academic Achievers who...

  • Plan for their educational future by setting goals and establishing priorities.
  • Show proficiency in essential literacy, writing, and mathematical skills.
Communicators who...
  • Communicate effectively by using appropriate verbal and written skills.
  • Process information critically and respond appropriately.

Thinkers who...

  • Evaluate, discriminate, and deduce knowledge with accuracy and logic.
  • Utilize a historical and informed understanding to develop their perspectives.

Self Sufficient Individuals who...

  • Learn independently and act as self motivated responsible learners.
  • Take individual responsibility for their lives and actions.