The school is a community of learning where staff, students, teachers, administrators, and parents share in the learning process. The classroom is the core of the community centered on the development of children. It is a purposeful, communicative, disciplined, caring, and celebrative place. Teachers are school leaders who work as a team and serve as mentors to their students. They have authority in making curricular and instructional decisions and work with the principal as the lead teacher.
Parents are the child's first and most essential teachers.
The home-school partnership is cultivated with parents participating knowledgeably as partners in school affairs and their children's education. District curriculum is taught within the framework of the Basic Schools Program. The tools of mathematics, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and the arts are combined with a core of essential knowledge to develop and foster every child's confident use of language and ability to communicate ideas. The integrated curriculum is organized around eight essential themes or core commonalities which spiral upward through the instructional teams from ages 5 through 12 year-olds. The eight commonalities, based on experiences that are shared by all humans, integrates the traditional subjects, helping students to see connections across the disciplines and relate what they learn to real-life experiences.