The Mercer Island School District's Board of Directors systemically measures the District's attainment of Board Policy 1800 OE-01: Student-Focused Fundamentals. Pursuant to an annual planning calendar established by the Board, the superintendent must show reasonable progress toward organizational accomplishment of the Student Focused Fundamentals.
The Board monitors these Fundamentals both quantitatively and qualitatively. Monitoring the Fundamentals allows the Board and the community to contextualize how our educational programs are “benchmarking” its progress toward these Student-Focused Fundamentals and the District’s Values, Vision and Mission contained in
Board Policy 0001.
This page contains historical monitoring documents for the seven Student-Focused Fundamentals. To do a more comprehensive search of all Mercer Island School Board meeting documents and Mercer Island School District policies, please click the School Board Meeting Agendas link or the Administrative and Board Policies link under School Board on the above navigation bar.
Values: Students are the priority. We believe in:
- Supporting the whole child
- Creating inclusive and equitable learning settings
- Ensuring our school communities are safe and supportive
- Providing rigorous and challenging learning
Vision: Inspiring our students to be lifelong learners as they create their futures.
Mission: The District will foster learning by engaging students in thinking critically, solving problems creatively, and working collaboratively.
Fundamental 1
"Create a personalized learning environment where differentiated instruction, student-centered education, and varied learning opportunities are responsive to students' strengths, needs, interests and passions."
Fundamental 2
"Maintain the highest learning standards in the areas of fine arts; health and physical education; English language arts; mathematics; financial education; science; environment and sustainability; social studies; world languages; computer science and educational technology."
| Date Approved |
Monitoring |
| Oct. 22, 2020 |
Profile; AP Addendum; Comparison Addendum |
| Oct. 10, 2019 |
Profile; AP Addendum; Comparison Addendum |
| Oct. 11, 2018 |
Profile (2013-2018), AP Addendum (2013-2018), Comparison Addendum (2014-2018) |
| Oct. 12, 2017 |
Monitoring Report, Profile (2012-2017), AP Addendum (2012-2017), Comparison Addendum (2014-2017) |
| Sept. 22, 2016 |
Monitoring Report, Profile (2011-2016), AP Addendum (2012-2016), Comparison Addendum (surrounding districts) |
| Oct. 22, 2015 |
Profile (2010-2015), AP Addendum (2012-2015) |
| Oct. 30, 2014 |
Profile (2009-2014), AP Addendum (2012-2014) |
| Sept. 17, 2013 |
Profile (2008-2013), AP Addendum |
| Sept. 4, 2012 |
Profile (2008-2012) |
Fundamental 3
"Develop self-awareness, empathy, emotional/social intelligence, responsible decision-making and citizenship."
Fundamental 4 (formerly Fundamentals 4-6)
"Engage students in analytical and critical thinking in order to identify and address global concerns."
Fundamental 5 (formerly Fundamental 7)
"Foster and embrace diversity, inclusiveness, and equity with a focus on respect and acceptance of every student."
(Pre-2021) Fundamental 4
"Encourage and enable students to be academic entrepreneurs and risk-takers who can choose to pursue academic passions and interests beyond traditional curriculum and beyond the traditional classroom environment."
(Pre-2021) Fundamental 5
"Cultivate and foster thinking and process skills such as analytical and critical thinking, cross-discipline thinking, creativity, innovation, leadership, collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and information and technology literacy in curriculum design."
(Pre-2021) Fundamental 6
"Cultivate global awareness and understanding of real-world problems, issues, concerns, commonalities, differences and interdependence."
