Core Values & Beliefs: Respect, Excellence, Integrity, Accountability, Collaboration

Core Values:

Integrity: People with integrity behave in an honest, trustworthy manner.

Respect: Respectful people have confidence in their own identity and acknowledge, understand, and support the rights of others.

Collaboration: Actively participating with others in sharing information and ideas towards a common goal. 

Accountability: Taking responsibility for the content and processes of decisions made, actions taken, and the resulting outcomes.

Excellence: In the pursuit of excellence, people take pride in their work, give their best efforts, persevere, reflect on results, and have the courage to apply this new understanding to subsequent tasks.

Beliefs:

To provide all South Haven Public Schools students with innovative learning opportunities that engage, ignite, and challenge them, we believe the following about student learning:

  • We believe in striving to prepare our students to be lifelong learners and responsible citizens in our current and future society.

  • We believe in building on a strong base of teamwork, respect, trust, learning, and leadership while maintaining a focus on the students to become an even better school for our students.

  • We believe that all students can learn and we must be sensitive to the diversity of their learning styles and developmental levels.

  • We believe that family and community involvement and support are essential to student success.

To support our students in taking control of their own future through service, citizenship, scholarship, and personal responsibility, South Haven Public Schools is committed to the following:

  • Collaborating as teams and professional learning communities to focus on student work. 

  • Building a culture of continuous improvement.

  • Being a vital part of community success and growth.

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Vision: South Haven Public Schools is THE district of choice, where all students graduate with outstanding academic skills and exemplary character.

Mission: To offer our students innovative learning opportunities that engage, ignite, and challenge them and to support our students in taking control of their own future through service, citizenship, scholarship, and personal responsibility.