TCBS MISSION STATEMENT

At Tuba City Boarding School children are first, important, unique, responsible, and nurtured.  Opportunities are provided for positive, life-long learning, healthy growth, success, and self-worth.  A quality education is supported in a safe and culturally competent environment.  Parents, community and school, together, educating the whole child for life.

*The above Mission Statement was adopted by the Tuba City Boarding School Board of Education in July 1995, and its philosophy is reflected in the ongoing day-to-day activities of teaching and learning.

TCBS VISION STATEMENTS

• Students will come to school daily, having eaten a nutritious breakfast, prepared and served by a congenial, caring staff, in a clean, safe, nurturing environment.

• Students will feel secure in the fact that each day will begin on a positive note, and expectations will be consistent, equitable, clearly expressed, and of the highest quality available.

• Students will feel safe and secure each day, through a consistently applied standard of clearly defined behaviors and consequences; through availability of certified counselors; through home/school liaisons; through the time and education given to making the campus a physically safe and drug-free environment.

• Students will be given the opportunity to express themselves by means of writing, speaking, and performing, beginning in Developmental Kindergarten.

• Students will acquire the skills to read, comprehend, and question; to embrace the power, joy, and adventure of books beginning in Developmental Kindergarten.

• Students will be provided every opportunity to attain advanced levels of the current TCBS curriculum, as reflected in the day-to-day activities of teaching and learning and in the assessment adopted for grades K-8.

• Students will be provided with the foundation and the tools to explore, inquire, conduct research, and compile orderly, coherent responses to such inquiries.

• Students will expect that assessments of their daily work will be reflective of the work actually addressed and practiced, and will be meaningful to the real-life expectations of the discipline.

• Students will be provided opportunities to work with businesses and agencies in the Tuba City community (and larger Northern Arizona community), toward meaningful, real-life experiences.

• Students will be provided opportunity to attain proficiency in the written and spoken language, and attain knowledge of Navajo history and culture.

• Students will attain, retain, and maintain self-esteem through:
          Knowledge of self
          Knowledge of Navajo history
          Knowledge of the Navajo language and culture
          Knowledge of other tribal groups

• Students will exhibit competence in reading, writing, speaking, mathematics, and science.

• Students will be given the opportunity to explore the performing arts and its technical aspects.

• Students will take advantage of Gifted and Talented Program opportunities.

• Students will be given opportunity to participate in school-sponsored athletics, student government, school-sponsored clubs and agency activities.

• Students will receive due process through a Table of Student Rights and Responsibilities.

• Students will be made aware of their rights and individual and collective responsibilities.

*Tuba City Boarding School staff and parents firmly believe in the Mission and Vision Statements of Tuba City Boarding School and are committed to the concept of “partnership”.  It is the intent of the aforementioned partners to make this institution the best it can be as reflected by student profiles and the post Junior High School profiles received on individual TCBS graduates.

BIE MISSION STATEMENT