Principal’s  & Associate Principal's Message
2008-2009 School Year

Dear Parents,

It is a pleasure to serve you and your children as Principal and Associate Principal of Heritage Elementary School.  We look forward to working with you to build and maintain a professional learning community that fosters mutual collaboration to fulfill our school’s vision of educational excellence.

Parents play an important role in supporting our educational journey and reaching our academic goals. A trusting relationship and continuous communication between parents and the school is essential for student success. We will develop specific strategies to create effective home-school partnerships.

Heritage Elementary School will command a climate of high expectations based on the belief that all students can master the State Academic Content Standards.  Explicit and systematic best practices/strategies will enable all students to access the core curriculum through a variety of learning opportunities. 
Various assessment tools will be employed to frequently monitor student progress. Results will be reported to parents and, subsequently, individual student goals will be developed and shared with families.

A safe, positive, and orderly learning environment for students and adults is essential to our success. Students and adults will model respectful and courteous behavior. We will continue to strengthen school safety programs such as the Olweus No Bullying Program and Second Steps.
 
Promoting and celebrating our cultural heritage and linguistic diversity is a district and school goal.  Everyone is valued and appreciated as an individual of great worth. 

This handbook provides you with information about our school policies, procedures, schedules, and protocols that will ensure your child’s success at school.  Please review this handbook with your child. 

We can fulfill our school’s vision when we work as a professional learning community.  We look forward to our partnership in making Heritage School a place of educational excellence where all children can achieve. 

For the sake of children,

Emma Sanchez                                Lalaine Perez

Principal                                          Associate Principal

Visit our web site at www.cvesd.org for additional school information.