Red Bank Elementary Vision Statement
Red Bank Elementary aspires to be a nationally recognized community school for student achievement, leadership development, and innovation.
Red Bank Elementary Mission Statement
Red Bank Elementary exists to ensure all students learn at high levels through the provision of high quality instruction and a positive culture where educators model and develop leadership, innovation, ownership, and grit.
Innovation
eLab: Red Bank Elementary is a proud recipient of a digital fabrication lab, or what we lovingly call our eLab. We were one of the first elementary schools in Hamilton County to earn an eLab in 2021 after earning STEM Designation in 2020. Digital Fabrication is led by MIT and our team has had the opportunity to visit and study these processes with the experts. Students get the opportunity daily to exercise innovation by being problem solvers who make their classroom, school, and world a better place. The eLab is just one innovative space with the tools to help students do this amazing work. We believe that our eLab helps us achieve our mission of preparing our students for the future by growing them as learners, leaders, and innovators each and every day. We do this by aligning eLab work with content knowledge being developed in the classroom and focusing on essential skills (our LION tenets) before supporting students in exploring and learning technical skills.
FOREST: Red Bank Elementary’s beautiful campus sits beside Mountain Creek and is connected to Mountain Creek Park which organically expands the RBE classroom to learning outdoors. Our Forest Program began in 2016 with a pioneering Forest Kindergarten making our school one of the first public schools in the United States to offer Forest Learning. After five years of growing the program and tracking its success, Forest First Grade was added in 2021. Two short years later, Forest expanded to second grade and beyond. We now have a forest coordinator who works with all students and staff to create learning opportunities in which nature is a co-teacher while we all enjoy the benefits and beauty of the outdoors. Our Forest Program continues to draw people to our school community and we now have research to show that students who participate in our forest program have lower nurse visits, less disciplinary infractions, and equal or greater academic achievement.
Video of our K,1st and 2nd grade program in action: Forest whole group video (youtube.com)
Culinary Arts: Our Culinary Arts Lab opened in August of 2023 with the mission to expand experiential learning for students. Culinary Arts fostered the revitalization of our courtyard garden and provides endless learning connections to real-life application and culture through food. These spaces provide resources for students to enhance the standards-based learning taking place in each grade level across our school. Students visit the Culinary Lab bi-weekly to collaborate, cook, and create!
Student Support Staff
School Counselors:
Bradford Goodridge and Danielle Carrasco
Social Worker:
Aryanna Gilbert
Student Support Coach:
Dani’el Becker
Transportation (Pick up/Drop off)
Car Riders Pick up/Drop off at the back of the school
Bus Riders Pick up/Drop off at the front of the school
For any safety or driving concerns regarding First Student buses (buses numbered 200 and above), please contact 423-498-5555 or visit www.firstfeedback.com
Buses are expected to arrive within 10 minutes of their scheduled time. Please have students at their stops and ready to board the bus 10 minutes prior to the scheduled arrival time. The bus schedule can not allow more time to wait for tardy students or for students to exit personal vehicles. For more information, please see the rules of conduct in the Transportation Policy Manual
Hamilton County Schools transports more than 20,000 students to and from school each day. There are 251 daily bus routes covering 23,000 miles each day and 4.0 million miles annually. Our mission is to provide safe and efficient transportation to and from school daily.
