Arcadia Unified School District's Vision and Beliefs Vision With families and community as partners for student success, the policies, personnel and resources of the Arcadia Unified School District are committed to ensuring that all students are provided engaging, meaningful schoolwork that challenges them to think, reason and use their minds well, to learn more, and develop ownership for their own learning. The school's obligation is to provide quality work which is engaging, results in students learning meaningful content, and challenges every student to learn more. Students are clients of the school district entitled to quality work. Teachers are leaders entrusted to create quality work for students.
Principals are leaders of leaders, accountable for the success of the school.
District-level staff work with schools and support initiative and effort to design quality work for students. All support staff work to provide an environment conducive to engaging students in quality work. The superintendent has a critical responsibility to communicate a vision of the future and to initiate and support action toward the vision. The Governing Board is responsible for setting policies that are consistent with these beliefs and that help the district to realize its vision. Developing quality work requires commitment to continuous professional growth on the part of educators and district staff.