Mission Statement

Greater Lowell Technical High School commits to ensure students' readiness for career, college, and citizenship in the 21st century. We challenge and support students as they realize their individual potential for personal and professional success.

Philosophy

Greater Lowell Technical High School believes in the philosophy and goals of the Massachusetts Common Core of Learning, the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, and the Massachusetts Vocational Technical Education Frameworks to ensure that students attain the academic and technical skills required to secure employment, to continue post-secondary studies, or to pursue a combination of both.

Greater Lowell Technical High School provides students with distinct technical and academic experiences in a supportive and safe environment to realize a focus for their future.

Greater Lowell Technical High School actively strengthens community and business partnerships with service programs, career and employment opportunities, mentoring programs, advisory boards, grant partnerships, field placements, and volunteerism.

Greater Lowell Technical High School’s faculty commits to the highest quality of instruction in both technical and academic areas and the design of extra and co-curricular activities that positively influence students’ intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development, to develop leadership, teamwork, and problem solving.

Greater Lowell Technical High School promotes and enhances the learning process by providing academic, technical, and personal/social counseling to facilitate positive student development.

Greater Lowell Technical High School believes that all students regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation have the opportunity to succeed through technical and academic programs and extracurricular activities.

Goals

Commit to a learning environment that increases student achievement and develops confident learners.

Develop staff and students to think critically and to communicate effectively through educational experiences that exercise teamwork, problem solving, and individual responsibility and pride in teaching and learning.

Incorporate proven instructional resources and technology into our technical and academic curriculum to prepare students to adapt to technological change and to broaden their awareness of career opportunities.

Encourage and facilitate increased parent/guardian involvement in the educational process, including extracurricular activities.

Staff and students will model standards of behavior that cultivate community, respect, and professionalism.