FOUNDATIONS The Foundations framework represents the partnership between student, teacher, and parent that is essential to achieving our core purpose of high-quality student learning.  The success of this partnership depends on a wide range of supports provided by others.  These supports are represented as an array of functional areas and a layer of governance that is intended to support the foundational partnership.  This diagram reminds us of our interdependence, whatever our role. It may be helpful to view this diagram as a picture of a living organism, perhaps a single living cell, the nucleus of which forms the core purpose and outcomes of learning.  Immediately surrounding and influencing the nature and quality of the care purpose and outcomes of learning.  Immediately surrounding and influencing the nature and quality of the core learning experience are the dynamic, interacting "Foundations" relationships between students, parents, and teachers.  These relationships are fostered within the environments of classrooms, schools, and various learning settings (playgrounds, school buses, etc.) where all personnel contribute in multiple ways to each student's learning.  Surrounding the schools and programs are each of the key functions of the school district as an organization, each contributing in an interdependent way to the ongoing life and development of schools and learning.  At the outer layer of the "organism" is the Board of School Trustees, safeguarding the district as a system while at the same time representing the greater environment and influence of the community which has entrusted its school system to their care. In short, this is our "systems view" of the Richmond School District; a dynamic system characterized by the involvements, influences, and accomplishments of many people holding a common stake in the importance and promise of public education. <<Prev -- Table of Contents -- Next>>