Mission Statement
OUR MISSION:
"Rachel Carson: Educate, Inspire, Empower, Look for Awesome"
OUR VISION:
Partners in Learning for today and the future.
PEDAGOGY
- Whole child: art, drama, sports, etc.
- Integrate as much as possible; all subjects including music, P.E., library
- All students are exposed to the general education curriculum
- Encourage performance-based projects
- Clear scope/sequence that challenges students
- Provide opportunities for students to perform at their ability
- Life skills / Life-long learners
BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT
- Genuinely acknowledge positive behaviors, choices, etc., of staff, students, and parents
- All adults are empowered to follow through with school/classroom discipline policies
- There is a natural and timely progression
- Teacher has the first interaction
- Next steps determined by need
- Discipline is a teaching moment
- Natural consequences
- Student centered
PARTNERSHIPS / LEADERSHIP
- Principal advocates for teachers, parents, and students; all decisions are made in the best interest of the child
- Teachers make educational/curriculum decisions
- Democratic decision-making
- All staff is represented
- Process for communication
- Decisions are followed through consistently
- Teachers are life-long learners
- Seek out Professional Development
- Professional Development is timely, meaningful, purposeful
- Shared Leadership
- Teacher leaders
- Decision making
RESOURCES
- Principal, teacher leaders, colleagues act as support and collaborate
- Systems are in place that facilitate organization
- Guided reading rooms
- Technology equipment
- Workroom Checkout/Return, etc
- Schedules are in place which facilitate collaboration
- Grade-level time blocks