Sylvan Park Paideia Elementary School Family Handbook 2024-2025

Sylvan Park Paideia Elementary School
Elizabeth Goetz, Esq. Principal
Elizabeth Ray (Hewitt), Ed.D Asst. Principal

Sylvan Park’s Vision Statement

Sylvan Park Paideia Design Center will be the first choice for families in our neighborhood and across the district.

Sylvan Park’s Mission Statement:

Sylvan Park Paideia Design Center will prepare students to live their best life by nurturing and supporting the development of social, emotional, and academic growth through the teaching of civil dialogue, real world projects, and critical thinking.

Sylvan Park’s Belief Statements

At Sylvan Park Paideia we believe:

  • We believe all children can learn when provided with research-based, high quality, differentiated instruction.
  • We believe in high expectations for all students and believe all students can learn all standards
    taught to their full potential in order to become contributing members of society.
  • We believe our children should have a safe, engaging, organized, stable environment with consistent expectations.
  • We believe instructional interactions should be positive, meaningful and meant to meet the diverse needs of each child.
  • We believe assessments should be data driven and be used to improve, individualize and guide instruction.
  • We believe we need to support our students by providing a safe environment with before, during and after school resources to assist a struggling child.
  • We believe in effective communication and collaboration with all stakeholders to build a sense of trust and a climate where people want to be involved.
  • We believe decisions should be made with knowledge of a problem, how it relates to our policies and procedures, and then align our plan of action with our mission, beliefs and vision.
  • We believe decisions should be made with knowledge of a problem, how it relates to our policies and procedures, and then align our plan of action with our mission, beliefs and vision.