Bruce Elementary School’s stakeholders are committed to providing an enriched learning environment in which all students gain the academic skills and social foundation to become independent learners, critical thinkers, productive citizens, and positive contributors to their community and society.

Our Vision Statement

It is the vision of Bruce Elementary School to successfully prepare all students to become productive citizens in the 21st century. In pursuit of the vision, Bruce Elementary School is committed to the following:
·1. Creating a safe, nurturing, challenging learning environment that fosters academic excellence and risk-taking
·2. Establishing a home-school-community partnership that works cooperatively and collaboratively plus shares the same goal: student success
·3. Using research-based instructional strategies to meet the needs of individual learners and address various learning modalities
·4. Educating students to read with comprehension, write clearly, and compute accurately
·5. Educating students to find and use information, think critically, reason, solve problems, and make informed choices
·6. Educating students to read on or above grade-level
·7. Providing opportunities for students to become technologically literate
·8. Maintaining high expectations and standards for all students
·9. Nurturing the abilities of all learners
·10. Participating in regular professional development opportunities that reflect on successful teaching practices
·11. Teaching students the importance of respecting themselves and others
·12. Assessing, monitoring, and adjusting current teaching practices and assessment tools
·13. Empowering students to be responsible for their own learning and actions

Beliefs

• We believe that students’ learning skills develop and mature from consistent decision-making, critical thinking, and interpersonal experiences.
• We believe that all school stakeholders should set and maintain high expectations for students.
• We believe that teachers deserve high-quality, professional development activities to learn current research-based instructional strategies.
• We believe that students must receive on-going formal and informal assessments to help drive instruction.
• We believe that parents, staff/faculty, students, and community members must work, plan, and make decisions together to ensure student success.
• We believe that a safe, inviting school environment is conducive to learning.
• We believe that we can identify and address individual students’ needs.
• We believe that each student is a unique person, with dignity and worth, and has the ability to learn.
• We believe in academic excellence.