Berkshire Hills Regional School District Mission

To ensure all students are challenged through a wide range of experiences to become engaged and curious learners and problem solvers who effectively communicate, respect diversity, and improve themselves and their community.

  • Student Achievement/Growth/Enlightenment
    • Foster an intellectually challenging and supportive education that expands academic and career opportunities for all.
    • Expand learning beyond the school walls to include nature, the community, and with partners.
    • Excite and engage students in learning
    • Problem solving shall be used as an educational tool in and across disciplines
    • Students will demonstrate their achievement and growth in a variety of ways and the data will be used effectively in the evaluation and revision of curriculum and instruction.
    • Use flexible schedule to meet varied student needs: pre-test, post-test, in order to allocate resources efficiently
    • Use personal relationships to maximize a social-emotional safety net.
    • Explicitly make curricular connections between and across grades, schools, and districts.
    • The school experience is engaging, verdant, and empowering.
    • Challenge our expectations and approaches to working with the underserved.
  • Human Infrastructure
    • Focus on an unrelenting commitment to success for all students and all staff.
    • Foster leadership opportunities for both young people and adults including a partial rotating administration position.
    • Make decisions that are good for students first and adults second (these don’t need to be mutually exclusive).
    • Use evaluation to set standards, recognize excellence and/or challenges provide support and when necessary after providing feedback and support to dismiss ineffective staff.
    • Study and potentially pilot incentive pay programs to encourage excellence and innovation.
    • Take true advantage of our sacred professional development time.
  • Resources/Financial Planning/Infrastructure Maintenance
    • Increase revenue through adding new K and 1 sections while maintaining class size.
    • Generate other income through reworking contracts, writing grants and individual solicitations.
    • Collaborate additionally to increase opportunities and potentially realize savings.
    • Revisit how we allocate resources: funds, space and time in support of our goals.
    • Rework how we use time including reconsidering the length of the school day.
    • Rethink roles.
    • Shift from a culture of advocacy for individual programs to one of problem solving for all students.
    • Work to improve food offerings, including additional healthy choices, and realize efficiencies.
  • Communication/Collaboration
    • Be clear and transparent.
    • Be explicit about the work in schools.
    • Ensure that each student is well known by multiple adults.
    • Ensure that adults are collectively responsible for small groups of students.
    • Make schools more community oriented.
    • Redefine existing roles (Role clarification: SC, Supt, Dept chairs/dept liaison, students and families).
    • Looks past building to campus, past campus to district and community, past district to collaborating districts.
    • Tap into and enhance the role of alumni.