MISSION STATEMENT
The staff of Miles Elementary School shall provide a quality, accountability-based education for all students while teaching all students in a safe, secure and positive learning environment.
WE BELIEVE
1. Every student can learn, and every student will learn, if presented with the right opportunity to do so. It is our responsibility to provide learning opportunities for all students each day.
2. Learning opportunities are determined by the nature of the schoolwork students are assigned. It is the responsibility of teachers and administrators to ensure that students are provided with schoolwork at which they experience success and from which they learn things of value to them, to the community, and to society.
3. Students are central to the operation of schools because they are the primary recipients of what the school has to offer.
4. Teachers are leaders just as executives are leaders; principals are leaders of instructors or leaders of leaders.
5. The primary role of the principal is to educate the parents about education, to promote the articulation and persistent pursuit of the school's vision, and to ensure that results rather than programs, dominate the attention of all.
6. Teachers and the principal are accountable for the results, and the results expected are that all students will be provided schoolwork at which they experience success and from which the students gain knowledge.
7. It is the obligation of the principal, school council, and the superintendent to provide teachers, the principal, and students with forms of support that ensure optimal conditions for performance, continuing growth and development.
8. The principal and the school council will ensure working conditions that confirm the professional status of all educators and the importance of the tasks assigned to all who work in and around the school.
9. Continuous improvement, persistent innovation, and a commitment to continuing growth are expected of all people and programs within the school.
Copyright 2006 Miles Elementary School and Barbara Taylor