Start of School Announcements
Congratulations to Ms. Dorothy Smith, Principal of CES for being selected as the Canton Public School District’s Administrator of the Year
Open House – August 23, 2010 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Canton Elementary School
School Vision: To enhance student learning and improve student achievement through cosmopolitan experiences.
Dorothy Smith, Principal
A new school year present opportunities for various beginnings – new classes, new faces, sometimes new courses, and often new materials. Summers and vacations can be great healers; and as we approach the opening day of a new school year, the end of the year pressures that plagued us in June seem quite remote and inconsequential.
Newness alone, however, cannot produce transformation. We ourselves must be willing to be caught up in the rebirth that is possible with each new year. Starting a new year gives us the opportunity to make new plans, design new strategies, and implement new ideas. There is a special kind of joy and satisfaction in planning lessons and activities for new a new class; for although the subject or grade level is the same, the students are new, and they appreciate the planning that is done for them. Whether one’s responsibility is administrating, supervising, teaching, preparing lunches, maintaining a building, or managing an office, there is always room for improvement and for new ways to do a good job even better.
We can be proud of what we achieve in Canton – in our classrooms, in our offices, and on our playing and stages – but our achievements are not due to complacency and satisfaction with the status quo. Our program is what it is because a staff of dedicated, aspiring men and women have a common goal – to do what is best for students – and are always looking for ways to achieve that goal.
This year, we must concentrate on the processes that spur continuing advancement: evaluating what we have, determining what we can do to improve, and identifying what we need to make those improvements.
Let us make 2010-2011 our best school year yet!
Canton Elementary School…Prancing toward Extraordinary Distinction!
I believe the below Old African Proverb affords the needed universal message.
“It Takes A Village To Raise A Child”
Mrs. Dorothy Smith and The Canton Elementary Family
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