About Us

Our mission is to help all of our students achieve at their highest level by providing instruction in a safe and nurturing environment. We also work hard to develop awareness and respect for cultural diversity.

Our mission includes the following:

• Promoting instruction aligned with Next Generation Standards
• Providing a wide range of academic and arts programs to develop critical thinking skills
• Supporting a positive learning environment through the collaborative work of dedicated staff, involved parents, and a supportive community

Students  need additional support with the following  reading comprehension skills - vocabulary, inference, main idea and perspective.  

Objectives

• Establish structures that allow students the opportunity to improve academic and literary vocabulary as a way of increasing  reading comprehension.
• Develop a common language for these comprehension skills and create anchor charts that will support the learning.
• Establish consistent structures, such as in shared reading and close reading that will improve inference , main idea, and perspective skills.
• Establish structures that allow students to share their learning with peers within the class and across classes as a way of increasing the transference reading strategies.

With writing, we notice that students need to work on editing and elaboration.

Objectives

• Provide students with opportunities to edit and elaborate their writing by using flaps, etc.
• Have them work with peers to review and edit work.
• Provide teachers with opportunities to study student work and make instructional changes, such as adding more editing and elaboration lessons.

Students lack conceptual understanding and the ability to articulate a strong understanding of the following math skills - geometry, data and measurement, algebra and algebraic domains.

Objectives:

• Ensure that students get rich and engaging math tasks that increase conceptual understanding.
• Ensure that student get opportunities to utilize academic math vocabulary to deepen mathematical understanding.
• Promote discourse and partnership work that allow students to justify and argue their mathematical thinking.
• Ensure that written explanations demonstrate students' mathematical thinking. Rationale:

Math Strategies:

• Continue to implement G Fletchy tasks and units.
• Plan and implement Envisions curriculum and maintain lesson and supports from Go Math.
• Continue to use exemplar math problems to work on building conceptual understanding and also be able to articulate the thinking orally and and written.
• Ensure that math centers, home work, and unit tests spiral the skills.
• Implement STEM activities that provided more hands on learning and connection of the math to real world.

We notice that students continue to require social emotional support.  We need to  continue increase students’ ability to identify their feelings, empathize, and resolve issues on their own. We need to continue to have students become more reflective and aware of their feelings.

Objectives:

• Increase students’ ability to identify their feelings and self-regulate.
• Continue to increase students’ ability to reflect and think of ways to handle conflict productively.
• Raise awareness of the diversity of our community in order to have activities that validate all types of families.

Strategies:

• Implement the mood meter (Ruler practices)in the classroom.
• Implement the Harmony units
• Enhance crisis intervention strategies.
• Ensure that think sheet becomes more consistent school-wide.