Starside will be a Learning Community (staff students, parents, and community members) that collaborates to: 
 

• Provide a safe, positive environment that promotes academic growth, good character, and values diversity.
• Implement researched-based strategies to ensure students achieve academic skills
• Maximize learning time to focus on essential skills
• Monitor student growth based on high expectations

We will:

• value diversity by modeling and encouraging sensitivity to cultural differences within the learning environment
• provide students an inviting learning environment with consistent and high expectations and specific, articulated, academic goals
• promote a positive school climate by modeling the qualities and characteristics that we hope to instill in our students
• continue as life-long learners to research, evaluate, and share reliable strategies that will help ensure the success of our diverse population
• utilize instructional time through collaborative planning to effectively implement differentiated instruction to ensure students' mastery of essential skills
• use methods of assessment that enable us to monitor the learning of individual students and guide our process of continuous improvement