Desert Learning Academys's mission is to provide a dynamic and inclusive learning environment that combines the best elements of traditional classroom instruction with innovative online technologies, offering students a flexible and personalized educational experience that prepares them for success in a rapidly evolving world. Desert Learning Academy Mission Statement: Desert Learning Academy provides rigorous high-quality personalized hybrid learning experiences to all students, with a strategic focus on character development, career and college readiness, and technology skill refinement.

Desert Learning Academy's vision is to empower students to become lifelong learners and critical thinkers, equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in a digital age. We strive to cultivate a community of engaged learners, where collaboration, creativity, and adaptability are fostered, enabling each student to reach their full potential. Desert Learning Academy Vision Statement: Every learner attending Desert Learning Academy can use blended learning to realize their full potential.

Student learning outcomes

Student learning outcomes (SLOs) are specific statements that describe the knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values that students are expected to gain or demonstrate by the end of a lesson, course, program, or educational experience. SLOs are typically measurable and help educators assess student progress and the effectiveness of their teaching.

Desert Learning Academy's current Student Learning Outcomes:
Technology: Students will locate, organize, understand, critically analyze, and use information from various sources using a variety of technologies.
Communication: Students will communicate clearly and effectively using a variety of different communication tools including cooperative and collaborative learning groups. 
Critical Thinking: Students will apply critical thinking skills and reasoning to demonstrate continuous inquiry, problem solving, and reflective learning. 
Life Skills: Students will use effective self-management and interpersonal skills to develop a mindset for lifelong learning and self-improvement. 
Content Learning: Students will demonstrate mastery of each discipline's content standards, principles, methodologies, and perspectives.
Accountability/Responsibility: Students will develop a maturing sense of ethics and accountability and the ability to make healthy, responsible and sustainable life choices based on appropriate autonomous goal-setting.

Declaración de la misión de la Academia de Aprendizaje Desert (modificada en marzo de 2021)

La Academia de Aprendizaje Desert brinda experiencias de aprendizaje híbrido, rigurosas y personalizadas de alta calidad para todos los estudiantes, con un enfoque estratégico en el desarrollo del carácter, la preparación universitaria y vocacional y el perfeccionamiento de las habilidades tecnológicas.

Declaración de la visión de la Academia de Aprendizaje Desert (modificada en marzo de 2021)

Todos los alumnos que asisten a la Academia de Aprendizaje Desert pueden utilizar el aprendizaje combinado para alcanzar su máximo potencial.

Resultados del aprendizaje estudiantil: (modificado en marzo de 2021)

Tecnología: los estudiantes ubicarán, organizarán, entenderán, analizarán de manera crítica y usarán información de varias fuentes mediante diversas tecnologías.
Comunicación: los estudiantes se comunicarán con claridad y efectividad mediante una serie de herramientas de comunicación diferentes, incluidos los grupos de aprendizaje cooperativos y colaborativos.
Pensamiento crítico: los estudiantes aplicarán habilidades de pensamiento crítico y razonamiento para demostrar la investigación continua, la resolución de problemas y el aprendizaje reflectivo.
Habilidades de la vida: los estudiantes usarán habilidades efectivas, interpersonales y de autogestión a fin de desarrollar una mentalidad para el aprendizaje continuo y la superación personal.
Aprendizaje de contenido: los estudiantes demostrarán el dominio de las normas de contenido de cada disciplina, los principios, las metodologías y las perspectivas.
Contabilidad/responsabilidad: los estudiantes desarrollarán un sentido maduro de la ética y la contabilidad y la capacidad de tomar elecciones de vida saludables, responsables y sustentables basadas en una fijación de metas autónoma y apropiada.