Enhancing a Successful Learning Community through CARE

Collaboration, Achievement, Respect & Enthusiasm

August 3, 2010

Dear Bollinger Community,

Welcome to the 2010-2011 school year.  The entire staff here at Bollinger Canyon wants to make this a successful year for your child.  Your active support and cooperation, combined with our best professional efforts, will ensure academic success for your child.  There is a spirit of cooperation, community, and progress at our school that I feel truly makes this a unique learning environment.

The goal of our school is to provide each student with a challenging and rigorous curriculum.  We believe every child can achieve academic success.  To this end, every child will be provided with quality instructional experiences which recognize, support and maintain high expectations for all students.

Our mission at Bollinger Canyon Elementary is that all children are encouraged to learn and grow in a safe, nurturing environment that promotes literacy, fosters self-esteem and challenges students to succeed.

With parents and teachers working together as a team, every child will succeed.  In order to give each child the best opportunity for success, we ask that we keep children first in all that we do.  If we accept and make real the pledge to keep children first, then it follows that education is our #1 priority.  A school-community with those two concepts as our core value and our common cause will stand ready, willing, and able to do what is needed for educating the children.  I know that our Community is such a place.Educating our children under the academic rigors and standards today requires that we all work together.  Children are our future – our collective survival depends on how well we nurture, love, and care for them.

At Bollinger, we take the business of loving and teaching children seriously.  Each person at our school approaches his or her task with a keen understanding of the honor that it is to be able to touch the future through the children.  Work of this importance cannot be done alone for several reasons.  First, by its very nature we are dealing with very precious, fragile material – a child’s mind.  Second, when we work together we get more done than if each person worked alone.  None of our efforts are as good as all of our collaborative efforts together.

As your principal, you can expect that I will reach out to you and ask for your support, ideas, suggestions, and involvement.  Over the last few years you have demonstrated that willingness to be involved and provide your support in multiple ways and I am grateful to be a part of this giving community.  I will encourage you to join in this community effort where preparing children for the future is our number one priority.  I pledge to do my best to ensure that each child is challenged, nurtured, and provided with a safe, fun, enriching learning experience.

As much as possible, I will be on the playground, on the sidewalk, at drop off and dismissal times, and out visiting classrooms.  I intend to be visible and accessible.  If you ever need to speak with me please do not hesitate.  I will make time to respond to your needs.  I see close communication as an opportunity to better serve our students.

As we work together during the year, I invite you to stay in contact and let me know how you and your child are enjoying your experience here at Bollinger.  There will be many opportunities for contact with me, so please don’t hesitate or ever think your comment or concern is unimportant.  Through team work, open communication, and a dedication to continuous improvement, we can make this school a place children enjoy being a part of. 

I look forward to working together to enhance an already outstanding learning community.

Sincerely,

Shawn Wells