Educational+Vision+Statement

I envision a school that has its foundation built upon providing a safe learning environment where everyone is held to high academic standards and ALL students are afforded equal opportunities to grow and develop emotionally, physically, and intellectually. Teachers are empowered to be lifelong learners, reflective practitioners, and leaders. We will build collaborative relationships with our community and cultivate an environment of care and belonging. I believe that a shared vision will be a beacon that guides our efforts to ensure each student is provided learning opportunities that are relative, rigorous and relevant to their academic success. = =  **"****1 Team, 1 Focus"**   **"100% Engagement, 100% of the Time"**

__**Mae's Educational Narrative**__

Yes, I believe education can be liberating, it can give one the freedom to choose their own success. Who are we to define what success might be? Success might be to help pay the bills so that our homeless family can find decent shelter. Success might be attending a community college to obtain skills needed to become a welder, mechanic, plumber or electrician. Have any of our local, state or federal policy makers looked at the help wanted ads lately? If they had they would know that these vocational skills are the ones in the most demand. Success might be finding a way out of the perpetual cycle of public handouts. Success might also be found by achieving and being accepted into a college. Who should decide? Politicians or corporate driven reform agendas? Think tanks, parents, educators or the students themselves? Who needs this reform policy when there is no funding attached. Sure NCLB was a wonderful idea with little 5 or 10-year vision and no funding to accomplish such lofty goals. Maybe we should reorganize schools as we know them and go back to the way schools used to be when the Community and it's children and parents actually had a VOICE and it mattered. School was an escape for me, I believe many students still seek the solace of a caring, nurturing environment where they feel at least one person truly has their best interest at the heart of their core and are not afraid to let that light shine. Instead of extinguishing these lights of HOPE, why don't we pass the flames of desire to change on?