{"id":5487,"date":"2022-08-28T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:11:40","slug":"message-from-the-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/blog\/2022\/08\/28\/message-from-the-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vision of Samuel Slater Middle School is to create and maintain a collaborative learning community that emphasizes student growth and success in a supportive and safe environment.<\/p>\n<p>We believe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>that every student has the capacity to learn.<\/li>\n<li>that every student and family is important and deserves to be treated with courtesy and respect.<\/li>\n<li>that the school and community have a joint responsibility to advocate for the education and well-being of its members.<\/li>\n<li>that with high expectations and high standards for learning, students will have the potential to progress toward high achievement.<\/li>\n<li>that all students deserve to come to school ready to learn.<\/li>\n<li>that well-prepared students have the ability to meet the challenges of a global competitive market.<\/li>\n<li>that diversity within our school is an asset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vision of Samuel Slater Middle School is to create and maintain a collaborative learning community that emphasizes student growth and success in a supportive and safe environment. We believe: that every student has the capacity to learn. that every student and family is important and deserves to be treated with courtesy and respect. that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-principal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psdri.net\/slater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}