The School City of Hammond has an obligation to foster and promote staff development to improve the quality of teaching and learning that will enable students to become contributing, gainfully employed, and self-sustaining citizens in a global society. Teachers will experience personal and professional success through ownership and effective change. The essential elements of staff development include meaningful interaction sharing and utilization of substantive skills and information. The effectiveness of on-site and citywide staff development is dependent upon encouragement and opportunity for sharing, modeling, and collaborating among peers as well as among parents, teachers and administrators. The success of each child is the responsibility of all child-serving agencies and each adult in the community.
Schools are knowledge work organizations.
Teachers are leaders and inventors. Principals are leaders of leaders. The superintendent is recognized as the chief educator in the community. To develop and support an environment at each site for planning, designing, implementing and achieving the Hammond 2000 Goals and Objectives. To develop through training and support a pattern of participatory leadership for effective decision making.