Our Mission

Daily commitment to the relentless pursuit of uncovering and nurturing individual student greatness while transmitting the critical life-long importance of true ownership and personal accountability.  We will actively partner with our parents and local community to provide meaningful instruction and necessary resources to support "whole-child" academic, social, and emotional development.

Our Vision

Graystone Academy understands that the integrity and character of all students, parents, professional staff, and positive local community investment will be essential to advancing our school organization's Mission and Vision.  The Board of Trustees, School Administration, Professional Teaching Staff and Non-Teaching Staff individually and collectively commit DAILY to:

• Provide an educational environment where all students feel safe, wanted, valued, and successful.
• Provide engaging and inviting classroom environments with clear expectations and rigorous instruction, and many opportunities for individual student social and emotional intelligence and development.
• Promote positive behaviors and healthy interactive attitudes for good character through appropriate skills modeling, skills acquisition, and skills application toward all professional staff and fellow students.
• Create, establish, and maintain a high quality educational and professional working environment that values Diversity and Trust, Respect, and Relationships are guiding principles.
• Clear communication and active collaboration with all students and parents/guardians to enhance and effectively support individual student academic achievement and social and emotional intelligence.
• Collective professional staff actions and intentional strategies to implement and utilize meaningful research-based data to provide a critical thinking teaching and learning environment that will result in more positive student outcomes.
• Responsible commitment of all professional teaching staff to actively participate in professional development opportunities that will develop and improve more educational strategies to benefit each individual student.
• Intentional focus strategies and productive actions to increase parental/guardian engagement and active partnerships.
• Provide leadership, practical communications, and relevant partnerships that will improve all stakeholder group relationships and collectively highlight, promote, value, and sustain the critical importance of quality education in our school, homes, and local community.

Belief Statements & Guiding Principles

• We believe that all children have the inherent human right to receive a high quality education.
• We believe that all children deserve to be treated with Dignity and Respect.
• We believe that all children should be encouraged, prepared, and eligible to have a choice for higher education and life-long learning.
• We believe that all children should be motivated and allowed to learn and develop in an ideal educational environment by improving educators' professional skills.
• We believe that all children should be exposed to a safe, clean, and welcoming educational environment with a state of the art teaching and learning facility.
• We believe that all children should be exposed to educators that maintain high standards and high expectations.
• We believe that all children should be appropriately empowered and introduced to the critical "life-long" importance of leadership, accountability, and ownership values, concepts, and daily practices.
• We believe that all children should intentionally receive meaningful discourse related to their academic, social, and emotional intelligence and "whole person" development.
• We believe that all children should be intentionally encouraged and genuinely motivated to find and pursue their "individual greatness" and the critical role that they (themselves) play in creating and deciding their own individual and collective fate.