H.W. Harkness
Elementary School (TK-6)
Contact: (916) 395-4585
Grades: Transitional Kindergarten - 6th Grade
Enrollment: 410
Mascot: Viking
School color: Forest green
Uniform: None required
Through a balanced, holistic, culturally responsive and standards-based educational foundation, students will become lifelong learners, prepared to be competitive and successful at all levels of their academic career.
An effectively prepared staff will build effective relationships
with students and parents; develop a standards-based and balanced
curriculum that captures interest, motivates, encourages
and challenges each student regardless of ability level to higher
academic achievement; develop within
their students inventive thinking, adaptability and
self-direction; explicitly teach interactive communication,
social and personal skills; require students to develop quality
state of the art results; develop relevancy of the state content
standards through Project Based Learning and Service Learning;
remain current on instructional best practices through
professional development centric to the site’s critical pedagogy;
promote English Language Acquisition and Development through
vocabulary instruction and authentic exhibitions/presentations;
provide targeted intervention; eliminate the academic achievement
gap and engage students through the use of Culturally and
Linguistically Responsive Teaching.