CORE 4
Ben Dalton, Superintendent, Kane County
- Rigor, Relevance, Relationships
- All students can learn if they have an advocate who believes in them. We all need someone to believe in us. We're here to make good things happen for other people.
- Create a culture where students feel safe, engaged, and have a sense of purpose and belonging.
- We live in an information age where literacy is essential and an inherent right for all students.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic,” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on April 23, 1910