I am pleased to provide you with this overview of the exciting things happening in our school. At Hawthorne Elementary, we are dedicated to achieving the highest level of learning for all students in a safe environment.
We continue to focus a major amount of our efforts and resources on reading as it is a foundational skill. Each day is filled with challenging reading instruction for all students. Our school has been honored with reading awards from our district as well as the state of Washington. Though our WASL scores have remained very high in this area, we continue making improvements to increase our effectiveness.
This will be the second year of implementing the Harcourt Math program. It has raised our already high expectations for students in understanding the foundational concepts of math. We are pleased with this research-based math program. It has been an excellent addition to our rigorous reading curriculum. Our WASL results continue to show improved achievement for our students in math.
We are also sharpening our skills in evaluating students’ writing. We believe that working together and sharing our understanding of high quality student writing is an important step towards helping them become successful writers. We are encouraged by improvement in our WASL results in writing.
To encourage and maintain a respectful, responsible, and safe school environment, we apply the Love and Logic philosophy school wide. This program helps our students practice higher level thinking skills as they learn to own and solve their own problems. We believe this is a lifelong skill that will help build capable and creative adults.
In technology, we are pleased to have a ratio of four students to one computer. Along with internet capabilities in each classroom, we have a computer lab in our Library. This lab is available for teachers to take large groups of students for keyboarding lessons; computer assisted learning, district assessments, classroom projects, as well as internet research.
We know that it takes supportive and involved parents to achieve the kind of results we desire to see in all of our students. Thank you, parents, for all you do to help us make Hawthorne an excellent place to learn!

Craig Miller, Principal
Hawthorne Elementary