- Lifelong Learning – Seek and promote opportunities for continuous learning.
- Integrity – Act ethically and transparently for the common good.
- Collaboration – Promote open dialogue, cooperation and sharing of knowledge.
- Inclusiveness – Embrace different backgrounds, cultures, and viewpoints.
- Excellence – Promote community-wide educational excellence.
GOALS
- Cultivate a culture that values learning across the community.
- Engage residents in dialogue about the value of learning.
- Gather and disseminate information regarding learning.
- Promote learning opportunities for residents from all walks of life, in all stages of life.
- Increase access to technology for learning.
THE LEARNING COMMUNITY MISSION
- Among our residents, covenant to value learning like no other community in the world.
- Develop a system of assessing the community’s opinion about becoming the Learning Community.
- Develop a website to promote the importance of learning and link residents to learning opportunities.
- Create and distribute promotional materials – including a video and brochure explaining the vision of the Learning Community and encouraging dialog.
- Create exchanges – online and otherwise - of innovative learning initiatives.
- Recognize employers who place a high value on learning and individuals who serve as learning mentors.
- Promote partnerships to increase access to computers and high-speed internet in homes as well as in public spaces.
- Foster partnerships to combat illiteracy.
- Cultivate partnerships to reduce high school dropout rates.
- Work with local government to offer incentives to reward educational attainment and learning opportunities.