We believe everyone, regardless of ability, deserves high-quality education and life experiences that nurture their needs, passions, and readiness to contribute to society.
Our Four Pillars
Empathy
We believe in empathy because it's essential in students' cognitive development to have the opportunity to learn how to identify with someone different from themselves.
Community
Community is a call for students to recognize that they are a part of something bigger than themselves. Schools are intentionally placed within a larger community context and take full advantage of the resources that a community has to offer.
Balance
We believe in offering balance in education, focusing on the social-emotional and character development of students as well as the cognitive and academic. We believe in a blend of humanities, math, science, art, and technology to create a complete educational experience
Thinking
thinking encourages students to focus on depth of knowledge rather than breadth of knowledge and to develop higher-order cognitive skills that focus on ways of thinking and learning rather than rote memorization.
Our Vision
We believe everyone, regardless of ability, deserves high-quality education and life experiences that nurture their needs, passions, and readiness to contribute to society.
Our Mission
We enrich lives through creativity, inclusion, and the integration of art and science. Committed to supporting individuals with disabilities, we foster Community, Empathy, Thinking, and Balance, empowering our community to thrive globally.
Adjunct Instructors
Elements operates an adjunct instructor program, hiring working professionals who teach alongside a teacher of record to provide additional instruction that is more specialized in specific fields connected to the school's lens of learning. Adjuncts are not certificated teachers but rather professionals who teach one or two classes per week around a particular and more highly specialized course. The adjunct instructor program allows students and staff to stay up to date around issues and practices within a professional discipline and gives students access to real-world learning by someone who is actively working in a specialized field daily
Club B Mentors
Club B and Beyond the Bell are after school programs for elementary and middle school aged students in Tacoma Public Schools, hosted and coordinated by a partnership between Parks Tacoma and Tacoma Schools. Elements of Education partners with both of these agencies to train, place, and equip high school students to lead Club B and Beyond the Bell clubs with over a dozen schools across Tacoma.
