SPES Facts
This is the SPES mascot.
What is an Atom?
This is the name of SPES's 2025-26 Priority.
What is Data Driven Decision Making?
PLC is the acronym for this collaborative structure.
What is a Professional Learning Community?
This instructional strategy requires grouping students based off of data to supple the diverse needs of all learners.
What is small group instruction?
These two types of data are used to identify students in need of learning recovery.
What is attendance data and academic data
SPES was founded in this year.
What is 2018?
We have this many measures of success.
What is 3?
Teachers “unpack” this in PLCs to better understand what students need to know and be able to do.
What are grade level standards?
Ongoing review of i-Ready and curriculum data supports this instructional tool.
What is progress monitoring?
These students are the primary focus of our learning recovery strategy.
Who are students who are two or more years behind and/or chronically absent.
For the 2025-26 school year, SPES currently has this many new staff on our team.
What is 4? (Jocelyn L., Pricila, Sofia, Sandy G.)
All K–5 students are expected to achieve this amount of growth on i-Ready.
What is one year’s typical growth?
These two main types of data are reviewed in PLCs to guide instructional decisions.
What is iReady benchmark data and curriculum-based assessment data?
This type of instruction allows teachers to target specific student skill gaps.
What is differentiated instruction?
High-quality interventions are aligned to this core instructional resource.
What is i-Ready?
These staff were the founding members of SPES.
Who are Angelica, Cristina, Lorina, Myla, Natacha, Olga, Rasha & Silvia.
Grades 3–5 will increase the CAASPP percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards by this amount.
What is 5%?
PLCs use data to inform this structured, reflective process focused on improving teaching and learning.
What is the inquiry process?
This practice ensures students are responsible for completing independent work during stations.
What is student accountability?
During Semester 1, our MSCP NHS students worked with our 4th-5th graders on math skills after school on this day.
What is Monday?
We have this many student accessible rooms (during school hours) on the SPES campus.
What is 23?
One measure of success is that this percentage of students who are 2+ years behind will meet their stretch goal.
What is 50%?
These five questions guide collaborative inquiry and continuous improvement in PLC+.
What are “Where are we going, where are we now, how do we move learning forward, what did we learn today, and who benefited and who did not benefit?”
Using student Data Binders, teachers have these weekly with their students to discuss their iReady progress monitoring.
What are Data Chats?
The IA Team worked with students weekly on their fluency skills as well as supported students work on their ELA personalized instruction.
What is Tuesday Tutoring?