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Elevate Elementary - Feb 2015

Added Feb 24, 2015 •

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my name is Ryan Elliot on the principal of elevate Elementary we serve students in kindergarten through fifth-grade are passionate about helping leaders about developing innovators having high academic and there's but also appreciating the whole child so that we give them Richmond opportunity and opportunities to express themselves creatively in a variety of ways it's cool and we're fortunate to have amazing family that a part of our community I feel like the parents in the staff here really working towards a common goal of making sure kids have that solid foundation of leadership admin clinical thinkers and problem solvers and I absolutely love it it's what we were hoping they've definitely exceeded our expectations which is awesome high percentage of military families that live in the immediate surroundings right here family that we're students night attend two or three or four schools even from the time they kindergarten through 5th grade or middle school want to provide a great landing spot for every single family those obviously deal with frequent transitions how about mom or dad that are deployed overseas so it's really really important to us to provide a place where every single student belongs Brown the principal he knows everybody's names and studies his walk around and like they communicate with my parents a lot more bleach my mom really likes the 7 Habits Champion us I begin with the end in mind be proactive things when when put first things first seek first to understand then to be understood hand sanitizer you have to work together and you can't work as a team not just by yourself enjoy that the teachers are always the best to help us learn and they always they never give up on us if we mess up they just help us those kids have struggled another a really fighting here because we have a completely unique setting there really cared about they know they're cared about they feel appreciated if valued and I think that the piece that I'm really loving seeing those kids begin to really Blossom it is amazing sensible van Elementary School for students day-in-and-day-out are enthusiastically coming into school every single day the smile the excite on the faces of our kindergarteners are second graders are 4th graders just as they come to school everyday gives me a lift as I think about all the work that we have before us amazing teachers we have an amazing parents we have amazing kids that do I put forth an incredible effort every single day we have a supportive board who knows what it takes do brake work with student we have Community Partners that are excited about this new education alternative that we have in our community that want to come alongside that want to support app always looking for more because again that end goal beginning with the end in mind is that every single student that we have the opportunity to serve Weatherby for one year for they move off four different part of the country or six years if we have them from kindergarten through fifth-grade is we want to equip them with those leadership abilities we want to give them the academic rigor and Chow so that they are academically ready for what they need in middle school high school college and Beyond

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