Welcome to Smith Elementary School. I am absolutely delighted to have the opportunity of being the educational leader for Smith Elementary School and the community! I look forward with excitement to the opportunity of collaboratively working with our students, our parents, our command and our faculty, toward providing learning opportunities in support of highest student achievement. To this end, I encourage our parents' active participation in our educational program. Parents are our students' first teachers! Your active involvement is invaluable as a classroom volunteer, student mentor, homework tutor or in the enjoyment of a special school activity. Your work with your own children; assisting with their homework, reading to them, joining them for lunch in the cafeteria or in the celebration of a special event in their school lives, are all critical components in the teaching learning cycle.