Our Mission at Geer Park Elementary School, in partnership with families and the community, is to ensure students' academic achievement by maintaining high expectations and recognizing different styles of learning. We will provide a safe and nurturing environment, fostering life long learners, productive citizens, and positive members of the everchanging global society.

Geer Park is a Learning Community where children come first.  All children and adults show learning growth in a loving, caring, stimulating environment with strong parent and community involvement.

* We believe that when parents are involved in their children's education, students, teachers, and parents all  

  benefit.

* We believe in fostering a nurturing environment in which each child feels special and grows in self-esteem.

* We believe that all children can learn and deserve opportunities to access a quality education.

* We believe that the love of learning should be developed and nurtured as a life-long process.

* We believe that critical thinking skills should be developed to enable children to resolve conflicts, make

  decisions,  

  and identify and solve problems.

* We believe that we should appreciate and respect differences and celebrate diversity.

* We believe that students must have equal opportunities to learn and choices about how to learn through 

  differentiated instruction.

* We believe that all students shall attend schools that have met external accredidation standards.

* We believe that all students will develop technological competence that will become a life-long skill.

* We believe that the door to a student's mind can be reached and unlocked by touching his/her heart.

Strength #1 We are focused on Core Values.

Strength #2  We maintain high expectations for adults and students.

Strength #3  We have a climate of caring, flexibility, and support.

Strength #4  We are positive in spite of adversity.

Strength #5  We have meaningful participation and shared responsibility.

Strength  #6  We believe in ourselves and our students!

Strength #7  We align our curriculum to State Benchmarks.

Strength #8  We use Data Driven Decisions to Drive Differentiated Instruction.

Strength #9  We have involved and supportive parents.

Strength #10 We utilize community resources.

Celebrating Diversity

     We are so fortunate to have students from a variety of backgrounds in our school. It is a wonderful setting for your children to grow in and learn to appreciate and respect the differences of others.
Since our children have so much to offer we try to expose the students to many different things. We have learned about Ramadan and Eid, which are Muslim Holidays. We have begun learning about Thanksgiving and will also learn about Christmas and Kwanzaa. February is African-American month, March is Women's History Month, and in   May we have Arab-American week. These too will be taught and discussed.
      If there are any other special days that you would like us to learn about please let us know. We feel teaching multiculturalism is a privilege and we enjoy learning about the different cultures ourselves.
If there are any special circumstances and you do not want your child taught about certain days or cultures or you have any questions please contact us.
     We would welcome any parents to participate with us or perhaps share a story or show us some family treasures that demonstrate some aspect of the cultures that we are studying.