Teachers have a profound impact on each student’s life and provide a positive role model for students by modeling respect, courtesy, and love of learning.

 Every student can learn and progress; for this to occur at the optimum level, students need to feel emotionally safe and secure.

 A student’s experience in elementary school “sets the stage” for future learning. It is at this level of education that we should teach children to accept times of success and times of struggle, so to teach our students how to work through, learn from, and move on from these experiences.

 Academic subjects along with art, music, and physical education are essential and equal parts of education and learning.

 Educating children should be a cooperative effort between teacher, child, and parent; an effort that is built on a foundation of mutual respect.