Principal

 

 

Welcome back to Highlands Elementary School. A special welcome to those of you who are new to our school community! This promises to be another exciting, successful, and rewarding school year. I encourage you to become actively involved in your child’s education. Please come to the school regularly, volunteer in your child’s classroom, attend our fabulous community activities, and join our PTA, ELAC, and School Site Council. Your presence and dedication to the school community is what makes Highlands a high quality public school program for all our students.  

Highlands is a very special community, our school is a wonderful place where we are able to provide a family-like atmosphere and seek to bring out the best in each child. Everyone at Highlands works hard to provide a rich learning environment for all children.  We encourage students to put forth their best efforts and believe that each student has unique talents that add to our school culture and community.  Our staff is continually learning and using teaching strategies based on the latest research about how children learn best. Instruction recognizes student differences, encourages respect and dignity in learning, and promotes life skills to ensure each student’s success as a life-long learner. 

When we are in school we teach our students about the three B’s: Be Safe, Be Respectful, and Be Responsible.  Starting in September each month we will begin a school wide Life Skill Themes to focus on building school wide character traits and social skills.  The purpose of this school wide work is to help build our school culture and expectations for healthy social emotional development to compliment our social emotional curriculum called Second Step. The language we learn together in school will help our staff and community communicate our values and expectations for who we are and how we want to be in the world. Please partner with us as we begin our Social Emotional Learning here at Highlands. As lifelong learners we can apply learning in all aspects of our life, at home, in school, and in our community. Together we can create an inclusive environment that is welcoming and supportive to all. 

Thank you,

Ms. Betti