Alpine Elementary School

About Us...

The Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals of Alpine Elementary

Mission:
•Everyone Excels in Thinking, Learning, & Caring

Vision:
•Focus on Four Essential Questions-
1. What do we expect students to learn?
2. How will we know what students have learned?
3. How will we respond to students who aren't learning?
4. How will we respond to students who already know?

•We believe that through effective collaboration, all students will be given opportunities to learn best at their level. This happens as we differentiate for all learners.

•We invision a team approach as we work together with parents as equal partners.

•We build student character and link our communication with home by using the Achievement Synchrony program.

Values:
•We follow as the core of our value system the Moral Dimensions of Education.
1. Enculturating the Young into a Social and Political Democracy
2. Equal Access to Knowledge for All Students
3. Nurturing Pedagogy
4. Stewardship of the School in an Educative Community

Goals:
•We have established the following academic goals for the 2009-2010 school year:

MATH:  Three students will be identified in each class as a result of their performance on the Alpine Elementary grade level common math assessment. For the purpose of our math goal that follows, each teacher will specifically track the performance throughout the school year of three students- one student scoring below average, one scoring average, and one scoring above average. The goal is for each of these students to improve by either 30% or reach/surpass 85% mastery on the grade level final common assessment given at the end of April 2010 as compared to the initial evaluation in August 2009.

READING: Similar to our math process, each teacher will identify three students to track, one that performs below average, one performing at average, and one performing above average on the DIBELS fluency assessment. The goal is for each of these students to improve by either 30% or reach/surpass 85% mastery on the grade level final DIBELS assessment given at the end of April 2010 as compared to the initial evaluation in August 2009.

WRITING: New for the 2009-2010 school year will be a writing goal. Each student will complete two writing pieces per trimester that will have gone through the entire writing process as taught to teachers in professional development sessions. One story per trimester will be collected in a qualitative writing portfolio to be transferred to the subsequent grade level each school year.