About Our School

Mission & Vision

Ashley Elementary is a neighborhood school dedicated to cultivating intellectual curiosity, creativity and joyful and rigorous learning opportunities for students, ensuring that they are prepared to be thoughtful, engaged citizens in an ever-changing world.

Instruction is…

Challenging, relevant and rigorous 

• Supported with Wednesday content planning and backwards design
• Ongoing teacher support- coach weekly or bi-monthly as a thought partner to plan and prepare lessons that challenge students and grow their skills, understanding and critical thinking and that are data-driven.

Data-driven 

• Weekly data team meetings that examine student work and standards
• Differentiation of work to challenge and grow all learners
  • Develop effective practices for small group instruction PD, planning support, coaching and feedback
  • Work with GT to develop choice menus aligned to themes, challenge opportunities and student choice

Joyful and engaging  

• Inviting learning spaces
• Experiential learning
• Celebration of student work, accomplishments and growth
• Opportunities for the community to come and see presentations of learning
• Experiences that peak student interest and engage them with new ideas 
• Relationships with students are paramount
• Mindfulness practices daily, school-wide
• Conscious Discipline