School Mission & Vision

Mission: To inspire, prepare, and empower all students to live peaceful, creative, fulfilling and responsible lives.

Flynn Vision: Flynn Elementary is a Responsive Classroom school and International Peace Site that is committed to the braiding of academics with social emotional learning and the growth of all students by establishing a community where there is a collective responsibility for all students.  We envision a school with the following characteristics: 

Equitable and Inclusive School Culture & Environment 

• A safe, predictable, joyful, inclusive school where all students, staff, and families have a sense of belonging and significance 

• Responsiveness to students’ individual, cultural, and developmental learning needs and strengths while incorporating the Equitable Multi-Level System of Supports (EMLSS) 

• A calm, orderly environment that promotes autonomy and allows students to focus on learning 

• Students and staff who are committed to the Five Peace Actions: seek peace within yourself and others, reach out in service, protect the environment, respect diversity, and be a responsible citizen of the world .

Community & Family Engagement 

• Strong, reciprocal partnerships between Flynn staff, families, and the local and global communities that are consistently nurtured through active and respectful communication for student success .

Learning & Collaboration 

• Each student will learn at high levels supported by Responsive Classroom’s Core Beliefs: 

• Social & Emotional Competencies: Cooperation, Appropriate Assertiveness, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-Control (CARES) 

• Academic Competencies: Academic Mindset, Perseverance, Learning Strategies, and Academic Behaviors 

• Value and intentionally use collaboration time for all staff 

• Students who learn and play peacefully, are responsible and do their part, treat others with kindness and respect, and use self-control 

Flynn Values (Collective Commitments): At Flynn Elementary School, we embrace Responsive Classroom’s Guiding Principles.  These include: 

1. Teaching social and emotional skills is as important as teaching academic content. 

2. How we teach is as important as what we teach. 

3. Great cognitive growth occurs through social interaction. 

4. How we work together as adults to create a safe, joyful, and inclusive school environment is as important as our individual contribution or competence. 

5. What we know and believe about our students – individually, culturally, developmentally – informs our expectations, reactions, and attitudes about those students. 

6. Partnering with families – knowing them and valuing their contributions – is as important as knowing the children we teach.