Standard D – Promotes Equity

D.1. Encourages all students to believe that effort is a key to achievement.

D.2. Works to promote achievement by all students without exception.

D.3. Assesses the significance of student differences in home experiences, background knowledge, learning skills, learning pace, and proficiency in the English language for learning the curriculum at hand and uses professional judgment to determine if instructional adjustments are necessary.

D.4. Helps all students to understand American civic culture, its underlying ideals, founding political principles and political institutions, and to see themselves as members of a local, state, national, and international civic community.