Historical Significance
Saucier Elementary is a K-6 school with a rich history. The school first opened its doors in 1905 as Saucier High School where both male and female students could earn an education. At that time, the tuition based school included dormitory housing, supervised by the principal and his wife. The school became part of the Harrison County School District in 1957. In the late 1960?s the school reorganized to serve as a first through eighth grade facility.
Although Saucier Elementary has seen many changes since its inception, the school still reflects the heritage, history, and values of the community that it serves. Generations of many families have been educated within …show more content…
Saucier Elementary Diversity Plan
Goal 1: Increase and strengthen cultural consciousness and diversity while garnering a deeper understanding of self-identity.
Objective 1: Provide professional development opportunities that include diversity rich content to raise sociocultural consciousness essential to the teaching and learning experience. Through these activities, the faculty and staff will: explore and understand how students? race, ethnicity, socioeconomic backgrounds, and language barriers might be affect students? learning and behavior; examine how personal beliefs and subconscious biases affect interpersonal relationships with diverse students and parents; understand how broad generalizations of characteristics of students? cultures and backgrounds can result in stereotyping; collaborate within professional learning communities to develop the knowledge and skills to adapt activities and instruction to the needs and experiences of students from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic …show more content…
Students will be able to identify cultural factors that shape personal identity and lead to the formation of judgments.
Data Collection Methods/Feedback: Evidence and application of increased understanding of cultural generalizations, stereotyping, factors that shape personal identity, and the formation of judgments should be documented: through daily classroom lesson plans; through both informal and formal classroom observations; through student generated products and projects.
Goal 2: Increase understanding of diverse cultural beliefs while strengthening cultural awareness.
Objective 1: Incorporate lessons that explore diverse cultures and belief, while teaching the benefit of interacting with others from diverse backgrounds in order to promote critical thinking and discussions within the classroom. Through these lessons, students will: examine the hidden ways cultures differ. recognize similarities and differences of members in a group. examine and recognize that people subconsciously limit personal frames of reference and alternative viewpoints. recognize and identify the rampant use of
Saucier Elementary is a K-6 school with a rich history. The school first opened its doors in 1905 as Saucier High School where both male and female students could earn an education. At that time, the tuition based school included dormitory housing, supervised by the principal and his wife. The school became part of the Harrison County School District in 1957. In the late 1960?s the school reorganized to serve as a first through eighth grade facility.
Although Saucier Elementary has seen many changes since its inception, the school still reflects the heritage, history, and values of the community that it serves. Generations of many families have been educated within …show more content…
Saucier Elementary Diversity Plan
Goal 1: Increase and strengthen cultural consciousness and diversity while garnering a deeper understanding of self-identity.
Objective 1: Provide professional development opportunities that include diversity rich content to raise sociocultural consciousness essential to the teaching and learning experience. Through these activities, the faculty and staff will: explore and understand how students? race, ethnicity, socioeconomic backgrounds, and language barriers might be affect students? learning and behavior; examine how personal beliefs and subconscious biases affect interpersonal relationships with diverse students and parents; understand how broad generalizations of characteristics of students? cultures and backgrounds can result in stereotyping; collaborate within professional learning communities to develop the knowledge and skills to adapt activities and instruction to the needs and experiences of students from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic …show more content…
Students will be able to identify cultural factors that shape personal identity and lead to the formation of judgments.
Data Collection Methods/Feedback: Evidence and application of increased understanding of cultural generalizations, stereotyping, factors that shape personal identity, and the formation of judgments should be documented: through daily classroom lesson plans; through both informal and formal classroom observations; through student generated products and projects.
Goal 2: Increase understanding of diverse cultural beliefs while strengthening cultural awareness.
Objective 1: Incorporate lessons that explore diverse cultures and belief, while teaching the benefit of interacting with others from diverse backgrounds in order to promote critical thinking and discussions within the classroom. Through these lessons, students will: examine the hidden ways cultures differ. recognize similarities and differences of members in a group. examine and recognize that people subconsciously limit personal frames of reference and alternative viewpoints. recognize and identify the rampant use of