Today's Choice for Tomorrow's Future

Our School

Description:
Sawgrass Bay Elementary opened its doors in 2007.  At Sawgrass Bay, our Leader in Me program provides students with the tools for creating a successful community of leaders through character education, cooperative relationships, and shared responsibility. By cultivating leaders and developing the whole child --- socially, emotionally, academically and ethically –- the program fosters a climate of principle-centered and personal leadership.  Sawgrass Bay became a Leader in Me Lighthouse Demonstration school in January of 2018. 
 
Mission:
Sawgrass Bay Elementary promotes high levels of learning for ALL and strives for excellence as we cultivate the leaders of tomorrow.
 

Vision:
A data driven, goal oriented, collaborative learning community working interdependently to ensure all students develop into leaders and learners who excel both academically and socially and are empowered to take risks and reflect on results.

Motto:
We are ALL learners. We are ALL leaders.

Collective Commitments:
•    We commit to…Building and fostering positive relationships across campus through morning meetings, LEAD time, Harmony curriculum and restorative practices.
•    We commit to…Continuous learning and using purposeful, relevant, and timely, data to problem solve and drive instructional decisions for ALL students. 
•    We commit to…Implementing a guaranteed and viable curriculum with intentionality, unit by unit, day by day.
•    As a PLC, we commit to holding each other accountable to be a positive contributor in order to preserve a collaborative culture.
•    We commit to…Establishing, supporting, and strengthening high-performing collaborative teams that work interdependently toward our common goal of increasing student achievement. 
We are prepared to do the hard work for our kids!

Beliefs:
  • everyone can be a leader
  • change starts with me
  • develop the whole person
  • everyone has genius
  • educators empower students to lead their own learning