Pleasant Valley School District Academic Program

The Pleasant Valley School District educational program is designed as a performance-based curriculum, the result of a spirited school and community strategic planning partnership. Our students are provided with the instructional and co-curricular experiences and opportunities to meet performance expectations that will enable them to:

Demonstrate effective communication skills including listening, speaking, writing, and reading for understanding

	Demonstrate the use of mathematical processes and applications to formulate and to solve problems
	Use critical thinking skills, including problem-solving and decision making, both individually and collaboratively
	Demonstrate technological and information literacy skills
	Demonstrate responsible citizenship and ethical behavior
	Apply understanding of the social sciences to the challenges of the present and the future
	Demonstrate knowledge of healthy behaviors that will lead to the development of physical, mental, and social well-being
	Demonstrate active caretaking of the earth and its finite resources
	Produce, perform or exhibit their work in the arts
	Demonstrate positive self-esteem and respect for others

Excellence in Education: A Community Commitment