Our Vision

Ansbach Elementary School provides many excellent opportunities to encourage and support all students' intellectual, physical, social, emotional and creative development and prepare them to meet the challenges of a dynamic and diverse world community.

Guiding Principles

Learning is a lifelong journey to becoming ones' best self. All students can learn and achieve academic success.

To be successful in the future, students must be able to:

• Find, analyze and creatively use information to solve personal and community problems.
• Communicate effectively.
• Adapt to change
• Respect those whose look or belief is different from our own
• Use technology for varied purposes.
• Work productively as a member of a team.

Our School Improvement Action Plan:
Goals:

All students will increase their READING abilities across the curriculum through reading strategies measured TerraNova 3rd Edition, STAR, SRI, DRA and Literacy Place tests by 2011

• Indicators of success: student scores will reflect a significant increase in reading, writing and comprehension by the end of the 2011 school year.

• Intervention(s):  AR, test-taking strategies, and Guided Reading.

All students will increase their MATHEMATICAL abilities in problem solving across the curriculum through strategies measured by TerraNova 3rd Edition, EOY Math Test, Mid-Year local assessment by 2011.

• Indicators of success – students scores will reflect their ability to problem solve at or above grade level by the end of the year.

• Intervention(s):  Daily Word Problem, UPSL, Math Magician.