Principals and Goals

Our principals and goals are:

-Supportive interactions between teachers and children.  How teachers relate and interact with the children in their care matters more than the curriculum being taught.  They provide essential development for self-esteem, social competence and intellectual growth.

-Safe, supportive and engaging learning environments.  If a child does not feel safe in their environment both physically and emotionally, nothing else will matter.  The health, safety, nutritional, and basic needs of the children must be met first to promote all phases of development.  Children work best through play and our classrooms reflect that in the environment and curriculum.

-Focus on the whole child. Our teachers use standards and curriculum that touch on all areas of children’s development.  We set up our classrooms to make sure that each area has a part in the everyday routine.  These include, language development, literacy, math, science, creative arts, approaches toward learning, physical health and development, and social emotional development.

-Create a culture of continuous learning and school assessments and data collection.  All children learn and develop at different rates and in different styles.  No one single assessment style will be able to help you understand where each individual child stands in their progress.  We collect data and assess all areas of development and are sure to provide learning activities and explorations that touch on all area of development and are differentiated for the variety of children in the classroom.  Assessments are done in informal and formal ways so the teacher is able to change and adapt lessons for each child so that each child can learn at their own pace and level while being included in the daily classroom life.

-Connections to families and our community  Having a strong connection to the families of our school help to stimulate the children’s development.  When the families and school work together we are able to make sure that the child is getting all they need from every person in their life.   We use parent participation, ideas, languages, and cultures from children’s homes into the classrooms.  We are connected with the community and strive to learn more about it, bring community into the school in various and safe ways, and find ways to help our community.

-Effective administration. Efficient and effective administration focuses on the needs of the children, families, and staff.  They are calm problem solvers who are ready to take on any challenges and make sure that the school remains a safe, healthy, happy place for all who enter the environment.