Mission
The Lexicon International School shall promote a high
standard of scholarship, responsibility, and citizenship in a
supportive, international community. We believe in a student-centred
approach to instruction following an inquiry-based and
interdisciplinary curriculum, teamwork, motivation, and collaboration
of students, teachers, staff, and parents.
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Vision
Our aim is to encourage critical
thinkers,problem anticipators and solvers; responsible global citizens
who are prepared to achieve the highest standards, both in their
subsequent education and throughout their careers. |
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Values
Visionary Leadership
To
ensure the creation of strategies, systems, and methods for achieving
performance excellence, stimulating innovation, building knowledge and
capabilities, and ensuring organizational sustainability.
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Learning-Centred Education
In order to develop
the fullest potential of all students, we need to afford them
opportunities to pursue a variety of avenues to success. We fully
understand these requirements and translate them into appropriate
curricula and developmental experiences. For example, changes in
technology and in the national and world economies have increased
demands on employees to become knowledge workers and problem solvers,
keeping pace with the rapid market changes. Hence, we at The Lexicon
International School will provide the best in not only IT but in all
aspects of developing a personality.
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Organizational and Personal Learning
This means that learning
- is a regular part of our daily work;
- is practiced at personal, class, and school levels;
- results in solving problems at their source (“root cause”);
- is focused on building and sharing knowledge throughout our school; and
- is
driven by opportunities to effect significant, meaningful change.
Sources for learning include ideas from faculty and staff, students and
parents.
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Valuing faculty and staff
We are committed to
the satisfaction, development, and well-being of our faculty and staff.
Evidently, we have more flexible, high-performance work practices
tailored to faculty and staff with varying workplace and home life
needs. We expect our faculty and staff to be student focused and more
multidisciplinary.
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Agility
We understand Agility is an
increasingly important measure of any organizational effectiveness. It
requires a capacity for faster and more flexible responses to the needs
of our students and parents. |
Focus on the future
We agree pursuit of
education excellence requires a strong future orientation and a
willingness to make long-term commitments to students and key
stakeholders—our parents, faculty and staff. In today’s education
environment, creating a sustainable organization requires understanding
the short- and long term factors that affect any organization and the
education market. Our school’s planning anticipates many factors, such
as changes in educational requirements and instructional approaches,
resource availability, students’ and stakeholders’ expectations, new
partnering opportunities, technological developments, the evolving
Internet environment, faculty and staff development and hiring needs,
this entails faculty education and training in assessment methods. We
also believe that focus on the future not only includes developing
faculty and staff, but doing effective succession planning, creating
opportunities for innovation, and anticipating public responsibilities.
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Managing for innovation
We believe Innovation
means making meaningful change to improve our school’s programs,
services, processes, and operations and to create new value for the
students, parents faculty and staff. Innovation leads to new dimensions
of performance.
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Management by fact
Our performance
measurement focuses on student learning, which requires a comprehensive
and integrated fact-based system—one that includes input data,
environmental data, performance data, comparative/competitive data,
data on faculty and staff, cost data, and operational performance
measurement. Measurement areas might include students’ backgrounds,
learning styles, aspirations, academic strengths and weaknesses,
educational progress, classroom and program learning, satisfaction with
instruction and services, extracurricular activities, sports programs
etc…
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Social responsibility
The school stresses
responsibilities to the public, ethical behaviour, and the need to
practice good citizenship, tolerance to all religions and communities.
We believe our faculty will be role models for our students in focusing
on ethics and protection of public health, safety, and the environment.
Protection of health, safety, and the environment includes our school’s
operations. While planning anticipate adverse impacts that might arise
in facilities management, laboratory operations, and transportation. We
are sure that our effective planning will prevent problems, provide for
a forthright response if problems occur, and make available information
and support needed to maintain public awareness, safety, and
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Focus on results and creating value
Our criteria
of performance measurements need us to focus on key results. Results
are used to create and balance value for our students and for our key
stakeholders—the parents, faculty and staff, community, and the public.
By creating value for students and stakeholders, our school will surely
contribute to improving overall education performance.
To meet the
sometimes conflicting and changing aims that balancing value implies,
our strategy explicitly includes key stakeholders like parents, faculty
and staff requirements. This will help ensure that plans and actions
meet differing stakeholder needs and avoid adverse impacts on any
stakeholders. The use of a balanced composite of leading and lagging
performance measures offers an effective means to communicate short-
and longer-term priorities, monitor actual performance, and provide a
clear basis for improving results. |
Systems perspective
Our systems perspective
will include our focus on strategic directions and on our students and
stakeholders. It means that we will monitor, respond to, and manage
performance based on our school’s performance results. A systems
perspective also includes using our measures, indicators, and
organizational knowledge to build our key strategies. It means linking
these strategies with our key processes and aligning our resources to
improve overall performance and satisfy students and stakeholders.
Thus, a systems perspective means managing our whole organization, as
well as its components, to achieve success. |