Helen Keller Elementary School strives to be a model school where…

Our Climate:
• Exhibits high levels of cooperation, collegiality, and energy.
• Promotes respect for each other and for learning.
• Is safe and supportive, where children’s mistakes are accepted, expected and used to promote progress.
• Fosters pride in and respect for our physical environment.
• Understands that students are unique and individual learners.
• Embraces outside resources to connect school and community.
• Supports a strong volunteer component.

Our Curriculum:
• Embraces rigor and relevance
• Maintains standards as minimum academic requirements and moves beyond the scope of those standards.
• Exposes students to the arts and humanities.

Our Students:
• Are actively engaged.
• Know the lesson objectives and can communicate them.
• Take responsibility for their work.
• Show responsibility by striving for excellence and doing their best.
• Communicate to a receptive teacher what they don’t understand.
• Learn not only content, but habits of mind that are necessary cornerstones for success in lifelong learning.
• Participate in community service.

Our Personnel:
• Support the mission and strive toward the vision.
• Make decisions based on what is best for the students.
• Improve their craft through professional development.
• Recognize each student’s learning through differentiating instruction.
• Enrich students’ experiences through extra curricular activities.

Our Leadership:
• Is a whole school responsibility, encompassing students, staff, parents and the entire Keller community.
• Promotes teams who study research and best practices in education.

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