Our Vision is to be a professional learning community that focuses on students exceeding educational expectations. Our Mission is to ensure all students a quality education and strengthen Dine’ cultural values for life long learning.

This year will be an exciting and promising time for Ganado Unified School District. Currently, we are in the midst of overhauling the “way we have always done things” in our education system since the inception of formal Indian Education and are working toward going above and beyond the status quo to ensure student achievement and learning. Following the opportunities presented through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The Ganado School District has embarked upon an educational reform movement that strives toward seeing our Vision and Mission come to fruition and being accountable to ensuring student achievement for all of our students throughout the District.

Our District is moving in the direction of providing a culturally relevant and meaningful education system for our students. We want our students to be better prepared for life when they leave the hallways of our schools at the end of their high school career. Our journey remains aided by Six Guiding Principles, or goals, that we call our “Non-negotiables” and ultimately drive our District. They are:

• Quality and Effective Leadership
• A Safe and Positive Learning
• Quality Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
• Ensuring Quality Student Performance
• Professional Growth for Our School Community, and
• Quality School, Parent, and Community Partnership.

In addition, the Governing Board of Ganado Unified School District has embraced a systematic improvement model called the “Ganado Foundations of Learning” that combines the Dine’ philosophy of life-long learning with a framework that seeks to improve student learning and clear guidance for developing and sustaining improvement throughout our schools.

The Ganado Foundations of Learning are:

• Dine’ Cultural Values
• Thinking
• Career
• Self & Social Awareness
• Respect & Reverence, and
• Communication

Simply put, we are a learning institution that wholeheartedly believes in putting our students first. We encourage you to take a look around and become familiar with our website. Thank you for visiting.