The members of the Northern Highlands community--students, faculty, administration, staff, parents, and other community members--will:
- Provide a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment dedicated to human development.
- Use shared decision-making to create a harmonious environment.
- Create a community committed to academic excellence and the highest ethical standards.
- Care about all individuals of our community, their growth and development, their ideas and aspirations.
- Create an administration that efficiently and effectively serves the needs of students and faculty with the best interests of the school in mind.
- Foster a highly motivated and innovative staff that inspires students to discover and perpetuate the joy of learning.
- Involve parents, community, and businesses in the educational process.
- Perpetually evaluate and adjust the educational process to ensure its relevance to current and future needs.
- Incorporate conceptual and technological advances both as the object of learning and as tools to facilitate learning.
- Provide appropriate facilities, materials, equipment, and time for effective learning and teaching.
- Emphasize the importance of physical and mental well-being by creating an environment that encourages healthy choices and positive self-esteem.
- Encourage students to appreciate and contribute to our culturally diverse society.
- Provide an intellectual and cultural environment that is optimal for learning, creativity, and independent thinking.
- Enable all students not only to master a common core of knowledge and skills, but also to use that knowledge creatively to solve real-life problems.
- Promote pride in ourselves and our community, and foster school spirit.
