Olean Intermediate Middle School

      

It's essential to take care of students as individuals in order for meaningful learning to take place.   

It's important to create an inspiring, creative environment! 

It's meaningful to create a relationship of respect and trust.  

It's necessary to to develop a sense of belonging, importance, connectedness and empowerment. 

It's valuable to connect learning to the real world making it authentic. 

It's cherished to have a positive, friendly, united relationship with parents.  

Once entering our room, read the door!  We live this philosophy: 

Here, we are scientists; we are readers and authors, we are explorers. You are loved; you are respected; you are a friend. 

‘A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.'
                                                             Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.