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About Us
The Delton-Kellogg School District serves families in Allegan and Barry counties encompassing 114 square miles. Delton-Kellogg has one elementary, one middle, one high school and one alternative high school located on the same campus overlooking Crooked Lake.
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District Beliefs
Belief #1: We Believe Our Schools Should Create Quality Learning Opportunities for All
What We Will See:
- Learners knowing what will be learned and what learning it well will look like.
- Communication regarding growth and change toward common goals and expectations.
- Opportunities for the learner, or group of learners, to correct learning through self-evaluation.
- A safe and trusting environment to take risks.
- Personal relevance in all learning situations.
- Learners continuing to grow, seeking current best knowledge and practices and running these practices through the use of screens. (Independent life long learners)
- Predominantly clarifying questions being asked when processing learning.
- Learners being given multiple opportunities through different modalities to show what they’ve learned and to discover what they have yet to learn.
Belief #2: We Believe All Relationships Should Be Built Upon Respect and Responsibility
Respect
What We Will See:
- Courtesy
- Diplomacy
- Active listening
- Asking questions for clarifications
- Skillful discussion
- Giving others the benefit of the doubt
Responsibility
What We Will See:
- Commitment to the vision, beliefs, and processes of the organization
- Kind confrontation of unaligned behaviors
- Ownership: doing what we say we are going to do
- Open-mindedness
- Meaningful dialogue
Belief #3: We Believe Our School Should Reflect Leadership Which Builds Consensus, Ownership, and AccountabilityWhat We Will See:
- Clearly defined vision
- Expectations and roles well clarified
- All responsible for accountability
- Consensus: All stakeholders able to influence setting of organizational goals
- Ownership: All stakeholders acting to achieve vision, mission, and outcomes of organization
- Accountability: All stakeholders committed to holding themselves and others accountable
- Trusting communication