District Vision

The vision of Franklin Community Unit School District #1 is to provide students with a quality education that develops the skills necessary to become productive citizens able to meet future challenges while achieving their full potential as human beings.

Technology Vision

Franklin Community School District #1 is committed to providing every student at Franklin with the materials, knowledge, and skills to become engaged learners, active in their own learning and lifelong learners in a technological world. Teachers and administrators act as facilitators and coaches, and active participants in a multidisciplinary environment. The stakeholders of Franklin CUSD #1 must continue to expand and support the best practices that impact student achievement using instructional technology. They must continue to expand the telecommunication, infrastructures, and information technology systems to provide experiences that challenge students to learn through effective technology integration now and far into the future. Our vision will support instructional technology by giving our staff and students the tools they need to provide and encourage implementation of student‐centered learning and application in the classroom and promote life‐long learning in a technological world.

Our forward thinking vision statement is based upon established beliefs:

  * Technologies make communication, reporting, and learning asynchronous
  * Technologies support students’ use of higher‐order thinking
  * Technologies are essential in engaging students in media‐rich environments
  * Technologies support real world experiences
  * Technologies support lifelong learners
  * Technologies support communication with the parents and community via the district website, Edline, email, and hosting the village website

To achieve our vision statement we as a District are committed to:

  * Ensuring that adequate bandwidth to support connectivity is in place now and in the future
  * Ensuring that students’ educational needs are met despite declining enrollment now and in the future
  * Technologies support communication with the parents and community via the district website, Edline, email, and hosting the village website
  * Ensuring that adequate bandwidth to support connectivity is in place now and in the future
  * Ensuring that students’ educational needs are met despite declining enrollment now and in the future
  * Continue to expand and support sufficient funding of technology initiatives in spite of restrictions of tax caps now and in the future
  * Ensuring focus on National Educational Technology Standards now and in the future
  * Ensuring staff development continues for all employees now and in the future
  * Ensuring that all teachers and administrators will use technology effectively for information, teaching, and leadership now and in the future
  * Ensuring that our vision is posted in all classrooms and on the district webpage now and in the future