"Doing Your Best is the Key to Success"

Mission Statement

Students, staff, and community design and implement a safe, engaging, and nurturing learning organization to build a strong foundation for students' personal growth.

Vision

Indian Creek is a community that works collaboratively to develop lifelong learners, build meaningful relationships, and place value on each other’s cultures and individual strengths.

Core Beliefs

At Indian Creek Elementary, we:

·       Build relationships with all students to support social-emotional and academic skills

·       Value students' experiences and cultures

·       Believe parent and community support increases student engagement

·       Believe every child has the ability to learn

·       Value risk-taking

·       Recognize students for their social and academic achievements

·       Work collaboratively as a staff to support ALL students

Vision

• All of our students enjoy thriving, productive lives in a future they create.

Mission

• Students, staff and community design and implement a learning organization that provides engaging, innovative experiences every day.

Core Beliefs

We believe:

• Every student is uniquely capable and deserves to be challenged each day.
• Uninhibited learning depends on a safe, nurturing, inclusive and flexible environment.
• An educated citizenry is essential for equal opportunity and a prosperous society.
• Meaningful and relevant work engages students in profound learning.
• Critical thinking and problem solving today are necessary for students to be equipped for future challenges.
• Genuine transformation requires disruptive innovation.
• Education is the shared responsibility of the community.

Goals

We will:

• Provide all learners with safe, nurturing, inclusive and flexible learning environments. (Digital Learning Environment)
• Engage learners through the use of technological tools to access, create and share content as well as collaborate with other learners throughout the world. (Digital Learning Environment)
• Reframe state readiness standards in a way that leads to profound learning and has meaning and value for students. (Learning Standards)
• Create flexible systems that result in a learning organization supported by innovative and engaged staff. (Organizational Transformation)
• Continuously involve our diverse community, staff and students to use their strengths, resources and talents to provide engaging, innovative experiences for all learners. (Partnership)
• Develop and implement meaningful, varied assessments that inform and inspire students and educators for continuous improvement and growth in a way that transforms learning and teaching. (Assessments)
• Design an accountability system that transcends state/national mandates and reflects local values and expectations. (Accountability)