Principal's Page

Welcome to Principal Walker's Web Page!

Below are our beliefs regarding teaching and learning that we developed here at Washington.

We believe that effective teachers:

 Create opportunities for intellectual risk-taking, collaboration, problem-solving, and application of classroom learning to real life situations;

 Implement strategies that promote ownership of learning to students;

 Design instruction to integrate a variety of innovative technological tools and resources to enhance learning;

 Demonstrate ongoing professional growth in order to increase the quality of instruction;

 Collaborate with colleagues to share and discuss exemplary practices, interpret student performance data, and design assessments that promote twenty-first century skills.

We believe that successful students:

 Communicate in a meaningful way for a variety of purposes and audiences;

 Demonstrate a sensitivity to the precision and nuances of written, visual, and aural medium through comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation;

 Employ critical and creative thinking skills to solve problems; and

 Pose questions, examine possibilities, and apply skills to find solutions to authentic issues.

 Make positive choices related to physical and mental wellness; and contribute to the local and global community in a collaborative and respectful manner.

We believe that successful students are the direct result of having an effective teacher. It is our focus this year to build the teacher’s capacity through best practices for instruction.

We live through our school’s motto EVERYDAY:

“Success is NOT an option, It’s the NORM.”