Our Mission, Vision and Goals

Our Mission

To achieve excellence together.

Our Vision

The Yonkers Public Schools empowers all students to take their place in the world as knowledgeable, competent, responsible citizens. Students are articulate, creative, achieving individual academic, emotional and physical goals in a safe, equitable educational community. Students are well rounded, achieve in all subject areas, integrate technology, think independently and connect content to real life.

All district staff are student-centered, innovative, committed, enthusiastic, educational leaders. They respect student diversity, strengths, and learning challenges. They understand and implement research-based strategies in orderly state-of-the-art facilities. All staff have high standards for their students, colleagues and themselves.

The community is an empowered, positive, collaborative voice that supports teaching and learning and participates in educational decision making for students. The district embraces the global community and is committed to meaningful partnerships.

Yonkers Public Schools is committed to student success.

Goals

Students completing their education in the district’s schools will:

1. develop a love of learning and will be prepared and committed to be life-long learners
2. achieve their full human potential as individuals and contributing members of society
3. be prepared to live with the challenges and opportunities of a world that is characterized by interdependence and a variety of interconnections
4. be prepared to live in a world that is characterized by a variety of individual differences and great diversity in social and natural systems
5. be prepared to live in a world that is characterized by accelerating change