Penny Road Elementary
10900 Penny Road
Cary, North Carolina 27518

Phone :: 919.387.2136

We believe that:

• Parents, students, and staff all play vital roles as partners in the professional learning community by sharing ideas, problems, resources, and responsibilities.
• Students share equally in the responsibility of learning and recognizing their own gifts, challenges, and potentials.
• Students experience success every day in an environment that promotes self-esteem, respectful behavior, and accountability.
• Individual styles and differences are appreciated and addressed though a variety of instructional strategies and diverse school activities.
• Families should provide a home environment that is supportive of academic endeavors.

Penny Road Elementary will be a respectful community of learners where:

• All students will demonstrate responsible, self-reliant, and respectful behaviors while exhibiting a desire to learn and meeting established academic goals.
• Teachers and parents will team to facilitate students' learning.
• Teachers will work as cooperative teams to design lessons that follow curriculum, set high expectations for each student, and foster academic and social growth.
• Administrators will partner with teachers, assistants, and parents to ensure that learning takes place in a safe, nuturing environment.
• Teacher assistants will be involved with direct student instruction.
• The curriculum as determined by the State Board of Education will be integrated, creative, and technologically sound.