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.