The Sound School Philosophy
The Sound School Regional Vocational Aquaculture and Agriculture Center is a unique public high school offering students a blend of the academic and practical education necessary to succeed in today's ever-changing world. The Sound School enrolls students from New Haven and twenty surrounding towns creating a community of diversity that develops students' social and intellectual skills.
Our mission is to help students become full participants in the global, multi-cultural society of the twenty-first century by involving them in a broad based high school experience that focuses on aquaculture, agriculture, and their associated trades and sciences. We encourage all students to develop sophisticated qualitative problem solving and critical thinking skills in order to apply scientific and ecological principles to everyday life. In this way, we believe that we will prepare Sound School graduates for employment in society as well as for the pursuit of additional opportunities at the post-secondary level.
Goals:
- Provide a stimulating learning environment in which all students may excel.
- Create an environment that fosters self-discipline, personal responsibility and respect for others.
- Establish a learning community in which students develop concern for their own educational and social development.
- Offer a curriculum based on marine technology and science, as well as meaningful study in all academic areas.
- Encourage interdisciplinary study wherever applicable.
- Respond to needs of individual students by offering many different teaching styles and venues.
- Maintain a multi-cultural student population to represent our changing society.
- Require independent study and work experience that involves students with skilled professionals in their fields of interest.
- Develop a relationship of trust between students, parents, teachers, administrators and the community, where the education of students is everyone's responsibility.
- Encourage teamwork in class and in after-school programs.
- Recognize successful accomplishment.
- Adopt new technologies and teaching methodologies as they arise.
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