Our Vision

"At Eakin we will build on our strengths of diversity, community involvement, and excellence in reading and the arts and we identify and improve upon our weaknesses to create a challenging learning environment for our children."

The Vision statement purpose is to show the path forward for Eakin. Here we wanted to acknowledge and celebrate our strengths; the qualities that make Eakin special and give it its current reputation and atmosphere, and yet recognize that we have areas in which we would like to see improvement. We want to maintain our strengths, and work on some new areas, such as science, foreign language, and challenging and meeting the needs of all of our children, including our large gifted population, and improved fundraising for the many programs we would like to see implemented in the next few years. The word challenging was chosen because of this meaning: "the quality of requiring full use of one's abilities, energy, or resources." American Heritage Dictionary.

Our Mission

"At Eakin we nurture each child's intellectual, creative, emotional, and social development within a safe and challenging environment."

By using each, the statement is meant to show that Eakin students' individual learning styles, strengths, levels of achievement, and uniqueness are appreciated and considered. Intellectual was placed first to emphasize that most people in our community believe that working on academics and love of learning should be Eakin's first priority. Intellectual was preferred to academic because it means the ability to learn and reason; capacity for knowledge and understanding. Whereas the definition of academic had several pejorative meanings such as scholarly to the point of being unaware of the outside world, formalistic, and conventional.

Philosophy

"At Eakin we promote and celebrate our diversity, community involvement, academic excellence, and love of learning for all students."