To provide educational experiences, instructional strategies and processes that enable all studen...

1. Professional Core Values

1.1. Honesty and Respect

1.2. Honesty and open communication are the foundation of our professional relationships. We respect, support, and value each member of our educational community.

1.3. Responsibility

1.4. We are responsible for the success of all students, the support of each other, and the support of our educational community.

1.5. Optimism

1.6. We are committed to positive attitudes and enhancing self-esteem for students, staff, and families.

1.7. Honor

1.8. We value and honor individual diversity within our staff, students and their families.

1.9. Commitment

1.10. We recognize that our obligations go beyond our professional responsibilities. We regard fellow staff members and students as part of our extended family.

2. We are committed to a strong and comprehensive educational program

3. We pride ourselves on our dedication to our students, families, community, each other, our profession, and to continuous learning.

3.1. Skills and Competencies

3.1.1. Ethical Role Modeling - stakeholders (parents, students, other teachers,)

3.1.2. Service, adaptability, perseverance

3.1.3. Community

4. Promote students to succeed intellectually, academically, socially, and emotionally.

4.1. This will be accomplished in a supportive environment that strengthens self-esteem and motivates students to be life-long learners, enabling them to be successful in an increasingly complex world

4.1.1. Skills and Competencies

4.1.1.1. Classroom mangament

4.1.1.2. Social Emotional Learning

4.1.1.3. Collaborative planning and practice

4.1.1.4. Content knowledge with an understanding of components of units and ability to articulate these concepts.

5. To Fulfill Our Mission

5.1. learning environment that enhances self-esteem, optimizes each child’s potential, develops a life-long love of learning, builds personal responsibility and fosters respect of others.

5.1.1. Skills and Competencies

5.1.1.1. Compassion

5.1.1.2. Engaging with the Other

5.1.1.3. Awareness + their contributions as diverse participants

5.1.1.4. Pluralism + active practice + increasing awareness

5.1.1.5. Actively promote inclusion in the classroom

5.1.1.6. Inclusive language

5.1.1.7. Tools for how to have conversations and practice using inclusive practices (students vs. parents vs. stakeholders)

5.1.1.8. Equity and Fair Mindedness

5.1.1.9. Social Awareness

5.1.1.10. Demonstrate inclusion in teaching practice, model the habit, and ensure voices are heard in locus of control

6. Fundamental to Our Mission

6.1. We are committed to the active involvement of a highly competent and caring staff, teamwork, shared leadership, the effective management of resources, and a safe learning environment.

6.1.1. Skills and Competencies

6.1.1.1. Respect

6.1.1.2. Reflective Practitioner

6.1.1.3. Effective Communication/Presentation

6.1.1.4. Collaborative Learning

6.1.1.5. Cooperation/Teamwork

6.1.1.6. Social Awareness^

6.1.1.7. Veteran teachers carry a different experience & awareness (seen as leaders and role models) -- not an expectation but an imposed view

6.1.1.8. Intellectual Humility - modeled & embodied

6.1.1.9. Service, adaptability, perseverance

6.1.1.10. Engaging in continuous learning and seeing self as learner (leveling the context)

6.1.1.11. Teaching as an evolving profession (always something to learn)

6.1.1.12. Accountability

6.1.1.13. Planning and Preparation (Lesson Planning)

6.1.1.14. Responsibility