Canton Elementary School

“Prancing Toward Extraordinary Distinction”

 

 

 

 School Vision: To enhance student learning and improve student achievement through cosmopolitan experiences. 

Dorothy Smith, Principal

      Greetings Everyone! 

       A new school year presents opportunities for various beginnings-new classes, new faces, sometimes new courses, and often new materials.  Summer breaks and vacations can be great healers; and as we approach the opening day of a new school year, the end-of-year pressures that plagued us in June seem quite remote and inconsequential.

       The Canton Elementary School staff is excited as well as humbled to be a part of the upcoming 2009-2010 school year. We look forward to the challenge of meeting children’s needs through a joint effort between the school, parents, and community.   

      Are you, at this point, asking how this somewhat unique task will be accomplished? Well, we (the staff) are indeed pleased you asked because we are thrilled to afford an answer of substance. This team effort of success will be driven through organization, instruction, and curriculum interlaced with love, empathy, motivation, and communication.

       Our students are in the driver’s seat of knowledge arched with a colorful steering wheel labeled “A United Force in Pursuit of Excellence.” So let’s get on board, in unity, to secure our future investment (children). 

       I believe the below Old African Proverb affords the needed universal message.

                   “It Takes A Village To Raise A Child”  

  Mrs. Dorothy Smith

The Canton Elementary Family