Pico Canyon Elementary School

All students at Pico Canyon will learn at high levels. 

Pico Canyon Elementary School’s mission is to provide all students with a positive and challenging learning environment which empowers them to become productive, educated citizens able to meet the responsibilities of the future. It is the shared commitment of the Pico Canyon community to develop the social, emotional, academic, and physical well-being of all children.

Pico Canyon Students will demonstrate: 

• Effective communication and social skills
• An understanding and appreciation of the existing diversity in our society
• Critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and risk-taking
• Individual excellence and a desire for life-long learning

Pico is a Community of Learners

• Leadership is shared
• PLC work is facilitated
• RTI structures are of OUR design
• We simply believe in continuous improvement for all students
• We don’t work in isolation
• We share our data
• We share best practices
• We find solutions for:
  • Students who get it
  • Students who don’t

In the past, school-wide discipline has focused mainly on reacting to specific student misbehavior by implementing punishment-based strategies including reprimands, loss of privileges, office referrals, suspensions, and expulsions. Research has shown that the implementation of punishment, especially when it is used inconsistently and in the absence of other positive strategies, is ineffective. Introducing, modeling, and reinforcing positive social behavior is an important step in a student’s educational experience. Teaching behavioral expectations and rewarding students for following them is a much more positive approach than waiting for misbehavior to occur before responding. The purpose of school-wide PBIS is to establish a climate in which appropriate behavior is the norm.