Ensure each student's academic achievement and personal success through personalized learning, social-emotional support, and educational equity.
A re-imagined education that ignites passion and empowers students to be responsible and successful.
Resilience • Adaptability • Hope • Equity • Respect • Connection • Innovation
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.