About Us

Mission:

Baileywick Elementary School will provide a relevant and engaging education and will grow students as collaborative, creative, effective communicators and critical thinkers.

Vision:

Baileywick is a place of joyful and purposeful learning. We honor and develop each child’s individual strengths in an environment that encourages risk-taking and creativity. Our community’s collective diversity of thought, experience, and background comprises the strength of our school.

Core Beliefs:

• The social and emotional curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
• Every child is uniquely capable and deserves to be challenged and engaged in learning each day.
• We value a diverse school community that is inviting, respectful, inclusive, flexible, and supportive.
• How children learn is as important as what they learn.
• Great cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
• To be successful academically and socially, children need to learn a set of social and emotional skills: cooperation, assertiveness, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
• Knowing the children we teach and appreciating their diversity—individually, culturally, and developmentally—is as important as knowing the content we teach.
• Knowing the families of the children we teach is as important as knowing the children we teach.
• How we, the adults at school, work together is as important as our individual competence: Lasting change begins with the adult community at our school and collaboration with the community at large.