Class Lists

How does the school determine the placement of a student for the upcoming school year? This is a question we hear every once in a while, especially after the class letters are sent home. There are many factors that go into this decision and it is not taken lightly or made with just a stroke of the pen. Clearly as students get older the amount of information we have about their learning styles and performance allows us to make decisions based on a wider range of criteria. However, in the early primary grades, where a child is just embarking on their educational experience, the teachers who associate with a student gather together and share their yearlong observations, anecdotal evidence, student grades, test scores(when available), reading levels and special needs the child may have. The teachers then spend a good deal of time and energy matching the students' learning styles, abilities and needs to the teachers at the next grade level. The choices are made with great care and empathy for the students and in most situations the placements are the correct placements--resulting in students who thrive academically, socially and emotionally.

Post Number One...

or is it technically post number two? Anyway, the first "did you know" I wanted to put out there is a brief outline of one of our school-wide goals for this year. We are going to be working this year to improve the writing skills in our 5-8 grade students. We will be doing this through staff professional development, hosting a writing workshop for the county on October 12th, beginning to get involved in the National Writing Project, and bringing back a newly revamped Internet-base writing program, MyAccess.

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for facts and information about our school, community, county and state! If you have some interesting facts that you would like to see up on this blog, let me know...I'll get it up so we can share the facts with everyone. Beats that other blog site: re "forum" Let's give it a try!