Mission & Expectations

School Mission

The RPA learning community supports a student-centered classroom and multiple educational options, which provide the support that each individual student needs, thus reducing the dropout rate and leading more students toward graduation. As educators, we will collaborate to search for various avenues to better serve our population through rigorous instruction, engaging content and curriculum, and holding students to high expectations that will lead them to find success.

In addition, we will prepare young people for the real world through the use of multiple intervention strategies and programs that will lead students towards success both inside and outside of the classroom. We will foster a school environment where we promote family and community engagement. We will do everything we can to connect with students’ families and community partners to support us with our vision that ALL students can be successful through multiple alternative pathways.

 

Student Behavior Expectations

Civic/Social:

Students at the Resiliency Preparatory Academy will:

  • Accept responsibility for their decisions and actions.

  • Articulate personal goals and establish priorities for learning.

  • Understand career options and the academic requirements needed for employment and economic independence.

  • Understand and demonstrate an acceptance of cultural and individual diversity and exhibit a respect for all.

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the respective roles and functions of local, state, and federal government.

Academic Ethics:  

Resiliency Preparatory Academy strives to provide academic excellence and the opportunities for each individual student to excel. In keeping with this goal a high standard of academic ethics must also be maintained.  All students will:

  • Learn to value and demonstrate ethical behavior.

  • Be better prepared to deal with such expectations outside the school environment.

  • Be assured that the integrity and value of their academic achievements will not be diminished.

Therefore, CHEATING, COPYING, PLAGIARISM, FORGERY, AND/OR ALTERING SCHOOL DOCUMENTS IN ANY MANNER WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. According to Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition, plagiarism is defined as, “stealing and passing off ideas or words of another as one’s own; to use without crediting the source;  to commit literary theft.” This definition also applies to information acquired via the internet.

Academic Ethics elicits the following responsibilities:

  • To maintain a personal standard of academic ethics.

  • To understand clearly the instructions, classroom behavior expectations, and academic expectations of their individual teachers.

  • To in no way participate or give the appearance of contributing to any cheating, copying, or plagiarizing.