Alexandria City Public Schools
Vision:
Our diverse students with ASD are successful in post-secondary education, employment and independent living in their community through the supports provided by highly effective multi-disciplinary teams. Our families are actively engaged and knowledgeable of the supports their children need to be successful in life.
Mission:
We:
- Develop, implement and assess individualized comprehensive educational programming for all students with ASD.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to include our families.
- Ensure supports are provided for each student to receive educational benefit in an inclusive learning community.
- Build capacity of school based staff to deliver high quality supports and services.
- Assure a seamless transition for our students to live independently and productively in their community.
Beliefs:
- Our job is to prepare for independence to be part of the community, not just academics beyond school from prek to Transition
- Public school system can provide as high of quality as any other school option.
- We should value cultural diversity to prepare them to enter the mainstream
- Education is not solely the job of schools- families and community resources serve as valuable partners
- All children can achieve at high levels. Students gain benefit through inclusive environment
- What we do must make sense for LT growth of students
- Data based decision making
- Use of evidence based practices
- Our students are able to determine needs, advocate for themselves and make life choices (ie. Self determination)
- Students are valued as contributing members of school community
- Our students with ASD have the same rights as other typically developing students
- Staff are invested and passionate about our students
- Our work has impact on the school division, family, school, and student levels
- Each student with ASD is an individual and whose supports and services meet his/her unique needs that evolve over time.
