Teams of medical professionals apply amazing, amped-up efforts in hospitals and emergency rooms every day to save lives and give patients a second chance to live successful and significant lives.  Likewise, we see the same urgency and effort daily in administrative offices and classrooms in Walker County.

Walker County Schools' mission is to prepare students for post-secondary experiences and to be workforce ready without the need for remediation.  As teams of professional educators, we are highly trained to intervene with amped-up strategies and to use our knowledge and skills to save our students from not achieving all that they possibly can and not moving into their lives capable of actualizing their dreams.

In "waiting rooms" throughout the system we find parents and community members anxiously awaiting the diagnosis, plan of treatment, names of suggested specialists, identification of tests and expectations for results for their "patients" (students).  With complete confidence that their students will remain healthy and thrive while safely in our care, families and communities send "patients" (Walker County students) to our "treatment centers" (schools).

We confidently provide research based prescriptive interventions to close gaps (wounds) and promote achievement (healing) for our students (patients).  Our graduation coaches and dropout intervention teams are trained in and are providing the most advanced critical care.  Intensive care is additionally provided by guidance counselors, therapists, special needs teachers, and other designated specialists.  One hundred percent of our staff cares about those we serve and demonstrates a culture rich in both academic and personal resources.

Just as teaching hospitals research and refine the practice of medicine on a daily basis, so do Walker County teachers, academic coaches, and administrators.  Through collaboration, targeted professional learning, and mutual accountability, quality instruction delivered by highly trained professionals is the norm.  Intensive efforts and incentives are apparent in the recruitment, training, and retention of teaching professionals and administrators.

Finally and most importantly, the "mortality" rate will be greatly reduced as all students design and actualize their own academic and life maps, kindergarten through twelfth grade.  No longer will dropping out out, the "disease" that handicaps learning and achieving, be considered commonplace in Walker County.  Proven-effective, research based teaching, credit options and alternative routes are offered to support and entice all students to complete their high school careers.  No child will be left behind.