Salmon Bay Mission
We Empower Compassionate, Creative and Independent Thinkers.
Vision
Salmon Bay K-8 will provide all students with a physically and emotionally safe space to engage in challenging, integrated and experiential learning, and will prepare them to become resourceful and responsible citizens in an ever-changing, diverse world.
At Salmon Bay
- We plan for the active engagement of all students by providing multiple ways to access and express learning.
- We teach social skills and emotional intelligence to create a safe school community and promote responsibility for each other.
- We grow and build confidence through hands-on classroom and field-based learning experiences.
- We investigate authentic problems that deepen our understanding and curiosity about the world.
- We engage in the work of social justice by examining identity, building knowledge and developing skills to challenge inequities.
Values
As a staff, we hold ourselves responsible for exemplifying the following shared values:
- Relationships Grounded in Trust
- Inquiry-based, Authentic and Experiential Learning through Hands-On Projects
- Service to the Larger Community
- Integration of Athletics and Arts with the General Curriculum
- Enhanced Learning Through Computer Literacy Skills
- Equal Status and Respect for all Members of the School Community
As an extension of our shared values, we explicitly teach our students the following research-based character strengths:
- Optimism – Expecting the best in the future and working to achieve it.
- Grit – Persistence combined with resilience; ability to complete something despite obstacles.
- Curiosity – Finding things fascinating; taking an interest in experience/learning for its own sake.
- Social Intelligence – Being aware of motives and feelings of other people and oneself.
- Gratitude – Being aware of and thankful for opportunities and good things that happen.
- Self-Control – Regulating what one does with one's feelings; being self-disciplined.
- Zest – Approaching life and learning with excitement, joy and energy.
- Creativity - Coming up with new ways of doing things; thinking outside the box.
- Compassion - Developing empathy for others; displaying care through action
- Independent Thinking – The desire to think for oneself.