Making a Difference - November 2023
Celebrating students and staff members during this festive time brings extra joy to our District. Please take a moment to...
Celebrating students and staff members during this festive time brings extra joy to our District. Please take a moment to...
There are a lot of exciting construction projects going on in our District. We hope this page will serve as...
I’m proud to work alongside talented teachers as we work to deliver on Waukee’s mission, optimizing individual learning and potential for success in a global community.
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Year Grant Ragan Elementary Opened
District elementary reading proficiency
Grant Ragan embraces the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching. Responsive Classroom is a set of practices intended to create safe, joyful, and engaging classroom and school communities. The emphasis is on helping students develop their academic, social, and emotional skills in a learning environment that is developmentally responsive to their strengths and needs. All staff operate from the core belief that in order to be successful in and out of school, students need to learn a set of social and emotional competencies – cooperation, assertiveness, responsibility, empathy, and self-control – and a set of academic competencies – academic mindset, perseverance, learning strategies, and academic behaviors.