Kingsport offers its residents outstanding opportunities for both primary and secondary education. Kingsport City Schools, comprised of eight elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, is committed to providing excellence in education for all students.
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Kingsport City Schools
What we are hoping to accomplish.
- The mission of Kingsport City Schools is to provide a student-focused and world-class education that ensures college and career readiness for all students.
Our desired future.
- Student Focused … World Class
What we believe.
- Exemplary student learning
- Guaranteed and viable curriculum
- Collaborative professional learning communities
- Engaging families and the community
- Data-driven decisions for continuous improvement
- Culture of shared leadership
What we strive to achieve.
- Goal One: Deliver world-class curriculum and instruction.
- Goal Two: Provide committed and innovative educators.
- Goal Three: Furnish safe, appropriate, and well-maintained facilities that support teaching and learning.
- Goal Four: Ensure business operations effectively support teaching and learning.
- Goal Five: Engage families and the community.
Who we are.
- Offer a rigorous, comprehensive, engaging, and vertically-aligned curriculum.
- Engage students in learning through the use of transformative tools and innovative practices.
- Actively engage and serve our families and community.
- Promote and support exemplary leadership through career progression and succession planning.
- Provide personalized professional learning opportunities for all employees.
- Promote collaboration through the utilization of professional learning communities.
- Support and sustain the organization with a performance improvement system.
What we do.
- Plan, teach, assess, and evaluate to inform instructional practices through the use of the 4 critical questions.
- Incorporate problem-solving and innovation in teaching and learning.
- Guide teaching and learning using internationally benchmarked standards.
- Seek to understand and engage our families and community.
- Recruit, retain, and develop highly competent educators.
- Build leadership capacity within our educational community.
How we plan for learning.
- What is it we expect our students to master?
- How will we know when our students have mastered the content?
- How will we respond when our students do not master the content?
- How do we respond when our students have mastered the content?
Find Out More
Kingsport City Schools
400 Clinchfield Street, Ste. 200
Kingsport, TN 37660
Ph: (423) 378.2100
Fax: (423) 378.2120
info@k12k.com