Welcome to the Van Meter Community School District Teaching and Learning Department. Our district strives for excellent in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and intervention to ensure that all of our students are achieving excellence at high levels. Our mission is to personalize learning for each students' success today & tomorrow.
Personalized Learning is about more than being a small school. While class sizes may be smaller than other schools, our attention to individual learning needs through a multi-tiered system of supports in just one way we address personalized learning. We use an "all hands on deck" approach to scheduled enrichment times to support student learning needs in math and reading. Providing student choice and fostering student ownership of learning is just as much a part of our personalized approach as our data-driven decision making. Through project-based learning opportunities, specific feedback, and student choice in learning, teachers help facilitate experiences that provide personalized learning options.
Innovative Practices are often for what Van Meter Schools is most known. If there is a better way to support students, we are willing to try those new strategies and approaches to learning. We have a history in our state of being the first at implementing what now seem routine practices. We were among the first 10 schools to go 1:1 with technology in 2009. We are a lead district is the state's Competency-Based Education (CBE) Collaborative as well.
Global Ready students mean more than just being culturally aware. We are working to graduate students who have well-rounded skills beyond mastery of content knowledge. We seek to empower learners who can recognize perspectives and take into account different backgrounds as they work in a collaborative setting. We give students more responsibilities with their independent learning time and help them foster self-regulation skills. All of this in addition to a K-12 Spanish program helps our students be competitive in a global economy.
Contacts
Dr. Corey St. John (Curriculum Director) corey.stjohn@vmbulldogs.com
Cody Tibbitts (Elementary Principal) cody.tibbitts@vmbulldogs.com
Adam Lamoureux (Secondary Principal) adam.lamoureux@vmbuldogs.com