If Sunset Elementary School’s children are going to receive an exemplary education, a shared vision must serve as the bridge between our school’s present and the future that it desires.

Leadership
Sunset Elementary School leaders will foster a clear sense of direction each day and pursue this with persistence, tenacity, and patience.

Staff
Sunset Elementary School staff will accept full collaborative responsibility for each student’s achievement and will model this standard of excellence on a daily basis.

Curriculum and Instruction
Sunset Elementary School will provide and utilize a carefully articulated curriculum including: instructional strategies (supported by best practices) for improving student achievement, technological tools and training, daily monitoring and support, leading to successful learning.

School Climate
Sunset Elementary School students and staff will work together to provide an emotionally and physically safe environment, which supports learning.

Community Partnerships
Parents, staff, and community will share in an active partnership, teaching Sunset’s children by providing a strong partnership, which focuses on an exemplary educational experience.

Students
Students at Sunset Elementary School will be persons of positive character who each accept responsibility for themselves, their learning, and their choices.

We will begin where the students’ abilities lie and nurture growth.

We will celebrate academic achievement, improvement, and personal character.

We will monitor each student’s learning, providing enrichment and support.
   
We will collaborate with one another and our students so we can achieve our collective goals more effectively.

We will demonstrate our commitment to ongoing professional development and continuous improvement.

We will involve parents in the education of their children by keeping parents informed of their child(ren)’s progress and offering suggestions for assisting them.

We will provide an inviting classroom environment for students by establishing clear expectations, consistent consequences, and specific, articulated, academic goals.


Attainable Goals
We will set team and school Norms.
We will assess where our school is academically and culturally at the present time.
We will set forth our mission, vision, values, and goals as we presently see them.
We will develop our personal missions to clarify our own beliefs and encourage others on their journey with us.
We will celebrate success!
We will meet regularly as PLC teams to focus on teaching and learning.
We will align curriculum, create, administer, and grade common assessments.
We will compile data from grade level assessments.
We will adjust teaching, provide support, and extend learning as data indicates.
We will consider our actions as teachers as it affects our goal to raise responsible independent learners with intrinsic motivation.



Stretch goals
We will ensure all students demonstrate proficiency on the PAWS assessment.
We will eliminate achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status.
We will ensure the academic success of every student in every grade level.
We will teach students to be wise consumers of information, critical thinkers who learn from each other and from experience.








 Built in 1953, Sunset Elementary School is home to approximately 280 students and 30 staff members. It houses kindergarten through 5th grade classes, an Instructional Media Center (library or IMC), music, p.e., special education, success teachers and

title I. Sunset has a staff dedicated to teaching students and helping them grow into responsible, lifelong learners. Technology is a growing component to the learning environment. Computers are found in every classroom. Sunset Shool has a computer lab for whole class work and the IMC has a minilab for research purposes. Sunset also has 2 mobile labs which float from classroom to classroom as needed. Sunset has a strong Accelerated Reader program, Rigby Reading, and Bridges Math.

Sunset School has a small, but dynamic, Teacher And Parent group, which is always looking for more members. TAP sponsors AR, the 5th grade swimming trip, field trips for the classrooms, the back to school picnic, the carnival, equipment and books for the school and many more projects.