Why Little Water Prep?
Our Vision
We are a high-performing, community-rooted elementary school committed to nurturing the whole child through a strong foundation of academic excellence and emotional well-being.
Driven by Data, Centered on Scholars
At Little Water Prep, we believe that true academic excellence is built on a foundation of continuous growth. Throughout the year, we closely examine scholar work and data to monitor progress, celebrate achievements, and refine our instructional practices. This data-driven approach ensures that every lesson is intentional, personalized, and responsive to the unique needs of each scholar—allowing their individual brilliance to shine. We are honored to partner with you on this journey, ensuring your scholar not only thrives academically but also reaches their fullest potential.
Our key design elements:
1. Scholars excel academically through a conceptual, deeper learning approach.
2. An affirming school environment supports the social-emotional growth and identity development of every scholar.
3. An interdisciplinary and culturally relevant approach to literacy instruction leads to lifelong readers, learners, and thinkers.
4. Knowledgeable, culturally competent, data-informed teachers lead to scholar achievement.
5. Families as partners in their scholars’ education.
Our unwavering beliefs:
Every child, every day.
We believe all children can achieve at the highest levels and deserve a high-quality education.
We believe in identity development for all our staff and students.
We believe in a learner-centered approach to education.
We believe in a deeper learning, interdisciplinary, project-based approach to learning.
We believe education is a tool that can be used to transform inequitable systems.
We believe in a culturally responsive, rigorous curriculum and instruction.
We believe highly effective, culturally competent teachers lead to excellent results.
We believe in community partnerships and collaboration.
We believe education is freedom’s work.