Welcome to Eastern Heights

Our small school has a big heart. We are a "family". Nestled in a quiet East Side neighborhood, Eastern Heights Elementary celebrates inclusion of the rich cultural diversity of our students and their families each day. Teachers here know there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to education, so we focus on Restorative Practices, Culturally Relevant Teaching, and Integrating Technology into our academic instruction to Personalize Learning for each child. More...

Eastern Heights Elementary: Educate for a Better Tomorrow

SOARING

SAVE THE DATES!!! Upcoming Family Events at Eastern Heights

Community Voices Circles- Join us Tuesdays from 5:00-5:30 pm: A restorative space to have a voice in your school, sharing, questions, open dialogue conversations about hopes and dreams for your children, your families, your school, your community.

Family Multicultural and Literacy Night- A night to celebrate ALL of the diverse cultures in your school and to highlight cultural diversity in literacy in your children’s learning.Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:30-7:30 pm Join us for planning! January 7 @ 4:00 pm and January 18 @ 8:00 am

NAAPI D- National African American Parent Involvement Day- A day to celebrate ALL families and to welcome all into classrooms to see how scholars learn every day. A day to celebrate African American History and Heritage and to share time together as a whole community. Monday, February 11, 2019 9:30am- 4:30pm (Assembly and Classrooms) and... 5:30- 7:30 pm (Bring your own dinner and enjoy culturally relevant films for all ages) Planning hapens every Wednesday 4:40-5:10 pm, join us please!

Family STEAM Night- (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math)- Fill your Passport as you try all of the great activities highlighting these subjects. Learn how your children learn!) Thursday, April 18, 2019 5:30-7:30 pm Our next planning session is January 10 @ 8:00 am, join us please!

RESTORING

At Eastern Heights each person has gifts and talents, is peaceful and kind and is here to learn! We are a Restorative Community at school, at home and in our community. We are very excited about our growing implementation of Restorative Practices as we support our community of learners small and tall, through building strong relationships, responding to challenges with Restorative Impulse, Trauma Sensitive Practices and developing our Social Emotional Competencies.

Community Voices Circles- Join us Tuesdays from 5:00-5:30 pm: A restorative space to have a voice in your school. Join us in Circle for sharing, questions, open dialogue conversations about hopes and dreams for your children, your families, your school, your community. (We are looking for other times that work for more families- please let us know if there is a better time for YOU!) robin.king@spps.org, 651-744-6655

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This is YOUR SCHOOL! We want to hear YOUR VOICE!

Community Voices Circles- Join us Tuesdays from 5:00-5:30 pm: A restorative space to have a voice in your school, sharing, questions, open dialogue conversations about hopes and dreams for your children, your families, your school, your community.

We Want To Know: Thank you to those families who have taken our surveys about Eastern Heights linked below

Family Voices 2018-19 How Family Friendly Is Our School? A Welcoming Environment?

Family Voices 2018-19 How Culturally Responsive/ Relevant is Our School? (Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Language, Gender, Ability, Class...)

Please Review our Family School Compact and take our 2018-19 Family Compact Survey to ADD YOUR VOICE too!

NO BULLY I Have a Voice National Singing Contest

Absences Add Up

We want ALL of our students here and on time!

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Join the PTO! Eagle Family Group

We hope to see you for our next meeting. Invite your friends to join us as well to support our school. As always childcare will be provided, so bring the little ones. Come to get involved & voice your joys and concerns! We are looking forward to family voices on our school decision-making teams! We hope to include your guidance in making our school better for each student and representing cultural relevance in our academic and social school community curricula. We're here WITH YOU!

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