The mission of the Boxford Elementary Schools is to maintain a learning community based on developmentally appropriate objective standards that: respects the individual and collective needs, similarities, and differences of all its members; and challenges its members to engage in a continuous process of learning; thus enabling them to reach their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical potential.
High Expectations for Academic Excellence: All students strive for a high level of academic achievement. Our schools provide educational opportunities that challenge students to their individual potential while encouraging all students to take academic risks and engage in critical thinking. All school staff members are dedicated to the consistently high level of performance necessary to support our students' academic achievement. The hard work by students and staff necessary to achieve these goals is expected, recognized and celebrated.
Personal Integrity: Consistent honesty, respect and personal responsibility regarding all our words and actions are fundamental principles. The common bonds within the school community are expressed through mutual cooperation, empathy and support.
Clear and Consistent Curriculum Implementation: Equitable learning opportunities for all are provided through an academic curriculum which is clearly understood by all and consistently implemented to meet grade level benchmarks.
Welcoming Environment: All members of the community strive to make our school environment safe, nurturing, and welcoming so as to foster the achievement of our shared Mission and Core Values. The connections between the schools and the Boxford community are valued and continuously renewed.
The Boxford Elementary Schools, through the combined efforts of children, teachers, parents and citizens, is a community of learners that promotes continuous intellectual, social, emotional, physical and aesthetic growth for all.
Children come to the Boxford Schools ready and eager to learn, open to trying new ideas, respectful of each other, responsive to adults and prepared to work hard each and every day to meet new learning goals and challenges.
Teachers come to school enthusiastic about teaching, motivated to take risks with new instructional practices, committed to continuous personal and professional growth, willing to work cooperatively with fellow teachers, parents and citizens at large, convinced that children learn best in a nurturing environment, and prepared to make positive contributions to the quality of life in our schools. Teachers strongly support an educational program that fosters student’s skills while at the same time enhancing their creative expressions and critical thinking skills.
Parents, as full partners and participants in the culture of the school, encourage children to do their best, transmit family values and expectations regarding the importance of learning and the need to work hard in school, regularly share their hopes and aspirations with teachers, support the efforts of teachers, and work to expand the resources and opportunities for learning available to all at the Harry Lee Cole School and the Spofford Pond School.
Citizens value our Elementary Schools as both places of learning for all ages in Boxford and as vehicles through which they can become connected to exciting and important opportunities for learning in an ever-changing world.
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Kathryn Nikas, Principal 26 Middleton Road Boxford, Massachusetts 01921 (978) 887-2856 |
Robert Sparkes, Principal 31 Spofford Road Boxford, Massachusetts 01921 (978) 352-8616 |
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