We will ensure opportunities for successful learning according to each student’s needs and abilities. This will be achieved through a partnership of students, families, school, business, and government by setting high expectations, fostering self-discipline, respect, responsibility, and promoting life-long learning.

School Mission

• Through a partnership between home, school, and community, Adams Elementary is a place where:

• All children can learn the basic academic skills and become responsible self-directed, life-long learners who are problem-solvers and decision-makers with respect for themselves and others.
• Teachers embrace the responsibility for ensuring success in learning.
• All children develop a sense of personal worth through successful work.
• Teachers model the attitudes and skills of healthy interpersonal relationships.
• All children are helped to expand their abilities.
• Teachers are committed to expanding their expertise in teaching

Dear Parents and Community:

At Adams, we are grateful for the opportunity to serve our community.  We believe that we are most successful when we work closely with parents to meet the unique needs of each student. 

We appreciate the strong support from our PTSA.  Their support and resources provide recreational, as well as, educational support, cultural enrichment programs, and other opportunities that directly impact our students. 

The success of these students is, however, becoming increasingly more dependent on their ability to meet specific standards.  These standards are to communicate effectively, know and apply basic skills, think analytically, and understand the importance of work.  With that in mind, we continue to address ways that we can best prepare our students to meet these challenges and take the risks necessary to learn.

Our Strategic Plan focus this year has been to create a system of support that will aid both the student and the teacher in meeting these standards.  With the use of staff development funds we have created a system of staff training called Micro-sessions. These sessions afford Adams staff the opportunity to perfect skills in the use of technology and current teaching strategies through the attendance of consistent, ongoing training.  We are grateful for these Micro-sessions, as they are a crucial part of our ability to provide staff training. 

We have implemented a discipline policy that focuses on catching students doing what is right, while setting high expectations and reasonable consequences for misbehavior.  We have continued with the “Helping Hands” program that rewards students for displaying behavior that is above and beyond our expectations, and have added the “Respectations Recess” for those students who meet our “expectation” of “respect” for themselves, others, and property.

We extend an invitation to you and your family to get involved in the Adams community, continue the tradition of support that has been displayed thus far, and help make Adams Elementary the best it can be.

 Sincerely,

Jerrol Olson
Principal