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Mission

Ensure each student's academic achievement and personal success through personalized learning, social-emotional support, and educational equity.

Vision

A re-imagined education that ignites passion and empowers students to be responsible and successful.

Values

Resilience • Adaptability • Hope • Equity • Respect • Connection • Innovation

Faculty/Staff Behaviors Exhibiting Board Values

Expectations of Excellence

  • I set and share goals.

  • I show respect to everyone and expect the same in return.

  • I am an active listener.

  • I accommodate for differences in ability.

  • I am responsible for my own behaviors, work and educational achievements.

  • I create a positive and safe environment in which to learn.

Communication

  • I communicate expectations, goals and daily schedule with a morning meeting.

  • I send home a weekly newsletter that communicates conduct, homework and school expectations.

  • I make phone calls and emails to our students homes.

  • I honor and praise perfect attendance, positive behavior, accelerated readers, and honor students.

  • I connect with a mentor student who is having difficulty at school..

  • I communicate with my colleagues through grade level meetings, committees and staff meetings.

  • I provide conferences with my parents through report cards, IEP conferences and daily observations.

  • I greet individuals to my room by greeting my students at the door every morning, acknowledging and welcoming visitors and providing a welcoming classroom environment.

Accountability/Commitment

  • I come to work on time and interact positively with students and staff.

  • I model good attendance to my students by being at school every day.

  • I model life-long virtues by being a caring, empathetic individual in my classroom with my students and families.

  • I communicate with staff and students.

  • I maintain an "I believe in you" attitude.

Collaboration

  • I communicate regularly with staff members and parents to discuss skills and concerns.

  • I share teaching strategies with my colleagues.

  • I take advantage of the opportunities to work with administration to achieve common goals

Respect

  • I offer assistance when needed to students, staff and parents.

  • I use respectful language

  • I demonstrate patience by always thinking of the students needs first.

  • I am willing to listen.

  • I am aware of my eye contact and body language.

  • I recognize and accept the students for who they are.

  • I know students names that I come in contact with.

  • I send positive notes home to parents and make positive personal contacts and phone calls.

Integrity/Ethical Behavior

  • I provide family activities such as writers fair, math and reading nights, Market Day and Open House.

  • I use self-control and model respect.

  • I model the Golden Rule and work together in times of need for staff and students and their families.

  • I acknowledge positive behavior by reinforcing the students with pats on the back, student of the week, PE and Art class awards and classroom / prep room conduct documentation.

  • I send home classroom newsletters, post my classroom behavior expectations and "I Can" statements within the classroom.