About Us
Welcome To Mitchell!
At Mitchell Elementary School, we inspire every student to love learning, achieve ambitious goals, and have a meaningful contribution to our community. We provide all students with an atmosphere of safety and an opportunity to achieve and participate in personalized learning experiences to maximize their fullest potential.
Brief history
Since its establishment in 1965, Mitchell Elementary School has proudly continued to display General Billy Mitchell's namesake as we, too, strive for visionary greatness. General Mitchell was an Army officer who assisted General John J. Pershing in forming the American Expeditionary Forces' aviation program. This program later became the United States Air Force. General Mitchell was a visionary who advocated critical thinking skills by planning and thinking ahead. He personified bold imagination and clear vision which has historically been the hallmark of America's greatest military airmen. Go Mustangs!
mission
Students, parents, and educators will work together to ensure that all students are safe, heard, respected, challenged, included, and valued every day to prepare every student to love learning, achieve ambitious goals, and make positive contributions to our world.
vision
Mitchell Elementary will create environments, curricula and instructional methods that validate and reflect the diversity, identities, and experiences of all students ensuring all students feel safe, heard, respected, challenged, included, and valued.
beliefs
We are committed to:
- Promoting high achievement and academic success through collaboration and shared decision making with stakeholders.
- Creating a nurturing, safe, and supportive atmosphere.
- Providing data driven instruction.
- Differentiating instruction to meet the needs of all students.
- Seeking and implementing innovative teaching techniques to promote academic excellence.
- Implementing research-based best practices that support critical thinking and problem solving.
- Utilizing current technology to enhance the quality of instruction.
Encouraging positive behavior
We utilize a good behavior model aimed at creating a therapeutic environment within classrooms. Through this program, students learn important self-management skills while collaborating to make their classroom a peaceful and productive learning environment. Mitchell students start their year with a vision for the classroom in which they discuss what they do and don't want to see. Throughout the year, teachers utilize a positive reward system to achieve that vision through various games and brain breaks. This curriculum helps prevent behavioral concerns and promotes positive relationships between students.
Family Atmosphere
Our staff and faculty work hard to create a calm and inviting atmosphere for students and their families. We want parents involved in the learning process, and we encourage two-way communication frequently through surveys, one-on-one meetings, or even a quick chat in the car line during pickup.
Mentorship opportunities
As a neighborhood school, our faculty takes a personal interest in mentoring our students. By identifying and working through social/emotional learning (SEL) issues, behavior issues have decreased across the school. We seek to create high-quality learning experiences that educate the whole child by meeting his or her social, emotional, and academic needs. With strong social and emotional skills, our students will be able to set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
