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Our Core Values
1. VALUING PEOPLE
Definition: To support, respect, honor and recognize people for their strengths, abilities, and contributions.
Best practices:
- Provision for public and private recognition of contributions by leadership
- Illustrate respect and value for different points of view
- Celebrate our successes
- Provide opportunities for meaningful feedback to questions and contributions of others
- Respect the time of individuals as well as groups
- Support site culture of positive productivity
- Share appreciation with all contributors
- Foster and build relationships
2. INTEGRITY
Definition: The honest, open, seamless implementation of a consistent ethical code of conduct and behavior.
Best practices:
- Follow through with commitments
- Walk the talk; model ethical behavior
- Build trust
- Follow rules with moral intent of the group, team, cohort, organization
- Say what you mean and mean what you say
- Strive for coherence
3. EXCELLENCE
Definition: Best efforts toward goals/meet and exceed goals
Best practices:
- Relentless pursuit of greatness
- Strong ongoing, daily effort with focus on priorities
- Never settle for less than your full capability
- See goals as a vision to motivate and inspire
- Set ambitious, but attainable goals
4. COLLABORATION
Definition: Positive, professional interaction among a group working to achieve common goals.
Best practices:
- Implement and support district and school inclusive staff development
- Create ongoing parent/community meetings/events
- Work to foster a sense of buy-in by all stakeholders
- Ensure meetings have purpose and value
- Include stakeholders in creation/implementation work of the organization
- Encourage people to bring their strengths to the table
5. STUDENT FOCUSED
Definition: A focus on student learning and mastery of California Content Standards.
Best practices:
- Effective long term planning and reflection based on mastery
- Use of benchmarks, formative assessments, summative assessments, etc.
- Implementation of targeted interventions, including afterschool programs
- Objective driven (not activity driven) instruction with objectives that are clear, measurable and focused on students
- Use data to inform instruction and intervention
- Provide a whole child focus
- Ensure universal access
- Provide instructional coherence with access, rigor, engagement and intervention
6. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Definition: The process of going from good to great to exemplary in a task or goal.
Best practices:
- Implement ongoing self-reflection
- Create big goals, supported by small steps and on-going planning
- Create checkpoints and celebrations for progress
- Review reality; look at data to inform ongoing improvement
- Create a culture of ongoing professional learning
- See improvement as a cycle: Plan, implement, access, evaluate, revise
- Get input from others
7. POSITIVE OUTLOOK
Definition: Sees new opportunities in situations.
Best practices:
- Recognize strengths; your own and others
- Celebrate ongoing and incremental success
- Embrace progressive change
- Operate with a generosity of spirit
- Self-efficacy – belief in your ability to achieve your goals
- Challenge 'mistakes' as growth opportunities
- Choose your attitude
8. RESPONSIBILITY
Definition: Personal ownership and accountability for outcomes and results
Best practices:
- Prior planning for instruction
- Ongoing and deep work on standards
- Taking initiative for your success and the success of others
- An internal focus of control for facing challenges
- Be on time, be prepared, be present, be engaged
- Be open to feedback; giving and receiving
- Take right action-know the right thing and do it
- Hold yourself accountable
Administrative Offices
Gateway Community Charters
5727 Perrin Ave
McClellan, CA 95652
Susan Robbins
Susan.Robbins@twinriversusd.org
Phone: 916-286-5129
Fax: 916-993-4114
GCC Superintendent/CEO
Cindy Petersen, Ed. D.
Superintendent/CEO
5727 Perrin Avenue
McClellan, CA 95652
Phone: 916-286-5129
Fax: 916-993-4114
Email: cindy.petersen@twinriversusd.org
