Every day we come together as a school during our Morning Paws.  Each week a community values theme is delivered and shared with our students.  Our premise is to continually prompt our students thinking for them to secure their background knowledge on our 4 Community Values:  Honesty, Kindness, Respect, and Responsibility.  Securing their background knowledge yields making meaning of why it is important to practice the Janssen Way through these values.  More importantly we want our students to be able to transfer this background knowledge independently when making decisions--to make good decision.   Our Morning Paws on a daily basis reminds, encourages, and teaches making good decision for one's self and others.  The impact is seen in the decreasing office referrals for our upper elementary students and a more keen awareness from our lower elementary students.  This process we have is valued by our staff, thus their daily commitment to 'remind, encourage, and teach' our students is embedded in what they do for our students.  Over the last three years, we have built a critical mass, as a staff, around the Janssen Way.  Our Morning Paws is one example of our commitment to better serve students. 

Thank you!   Mr. Nikolaou