The mission of Henry School is to provide a safe, caring setting that helps students grow academically and socially.

Henry Elementary School is dedicated to a student-centered, innovative, rigorous instructional program where: 

Students:

• Are known, cared for, challenged, and believed in as learners in a safe environment;

• Are engaged in and value education as a critical life skill and take ownership of their personal learning;

• Identify, articulate and demonstrate problem solving strategies of good readers, writers, and mathematicians;

• Are challenged at their individual academic level with a variety of materials and texts in each subject area;

• Are provided daily opportunities to collaborate with peers and participate in shared learning experiences; and

• Are guided in developing the characteristics that lead to being productive citizens.

Parents and Community:

• Are invested in academic partnerships among parents, schools, and the community to promote student attendance, participation, and achievement;

• Are provided opportunities to share ideas and concerns;

• Interact with children to support and sustain developmental learning at home and in the community;

• Support school functions beyond academics; and

• Encourage students to invest in academics in order to become high-performing citizens.

Teachers:

• Demonstrate and articulate a collective understanding of a comprehensive, rigorous curriculum focused on student goals and outcomes;

• Build on their own teaching strengths while capitalizing on student capabilities and individual student learning styles;

• Incorporate innovative, powerful, differentiated, instructional practices in daily work with students;

• Create supportive and challenging classroom cultures which encourages student collaboration and promotes risk taking;

• Effectively use professional learning communities to drive a) decisions about assessment, b) the analysis of assessment data, and c) implications for changes in instruction;

• Regularly participate in high quality, targeted, differentiated district and school-wide professional development and implement the content and skills into daily practice, and;

• Nurture new and deeper partnerships with parents and community leaders to promote school academic goals and create a supportive culture of learning at home.

Schools and School Leaders: 

• Showcase academic instruction that is differentiated, based on standards, student learning styles, and interests;

• Strive for clear, consistent educational outcomes in all academic areas for each grade level;

• Demonstrate understanding of the academic outcomes and support the teachers in utilizing the outcomes across grade levels;

• Exemplify clarity of district and school academic goals and act according to those goals;

• Support the district and school learning goals through ongoing, collaborative implementation of effective, innovative instructional practices.