Mission Statement and Vision

The mission of Woodburn School for the Fine & Communicative Arts is to empower students to be responsible citizens, creative thinkers and passionate life-long learners.

To achieve our mission, staff is ever focused on moving toward its vision of its ideal, best school community – an inclusive and safe environment in which learning is the primary focus, both for students and adults.

Empowerment and love of learning are achieved by the following means:

• Holding high expectations for each child
• Collaborating to plan and deliver high-quality instruction for each student
• Assessing individual student needs
• Providing challenging but differentiated, active and interactive learning experiences
• Enriching these experiences with current technology and fine/communicative arts strategies
• Intentional promoting of good character

In this shared preferred future, all students, their families, staff and neighbors have a deep pride in belonging to a school community in which diversity is respected, honored and used as a source of learning, including differences in ethnicity, race, language, learning styles and abilities, and intelligences/talents.