About Our School

Harriet Tubman Elementary School opened its doors in August of 1989,
in the building that formerly housed Lakeshore High School Students
from Kathleen Mitchell and The Meadows Elementary Schools came
together for the first time, forming a new constellation that wove together
the divergent histories of two communities. Tubman's teachers hold the
basic philosophy that each child is an individual with the potential for
greatness, that they are to be treated with respect, and that the history of
each child forms the history of the whole. The goal of the Tubman
faculty and staff is to meet the children where they are and steer them on
a course of academic and moral excellence. To navigate this course, the
stars will serve as guides. With their help, we will dream big, reach high,
and work diligently.

Apart from its personal history, this school carries an American legacy
handed down from the late, great Harriet Tubman herself. Born a slave
in Bucktown, MD Harriet Tubman grew up to become the most famous
leader of the Underground Railroad. Using the stars as her guide,
Tubman navigated her way to freedom. Over the course of many years,
she made nineteen addtional trips to the south an helped over three
hundred slaves find their way to freedom. After the Civil War, Tubman
helped raise money for black schools, and was surely struck with the
conviction that education brings its own freedom. The faculty and staff
at Tubman Elementary share this conviction today.

If you would like to find our more information about this extraordinary
woman please visit
http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/nhtubman.html