SCHOOL NORMS
This should not be used for texting, calling, emailing, or social media during instructional times, professional learning, or meetings.
Cell Phones
Curiosity- How do you challenge your knowledge and beliefs. Courage- How do you exercise your power and how do you respond to your mistakes. Community- How do you support your community?
Our Core Values
Explicit instruction using this will build students' phonemic and phonological awareness
Orton-Gillingham Approach to teaching literacy
We use this to document incidents and accidents and completed investigations
Online Occurrence Reporting System (oors)
Introduce new words and post them in the room for reference as you engage in the lesson.
Pre-teach vocabulary
You should use your Tuesday time to call parents of students without permission and/or money. If a family cannot afford this, please see Rachel at least two weeks ahead of scheduled time.
Field Trips
This/there is/are the BEST person/people from whom to get support for your questions or wondering around pedagogy and instructional decisions.
Teacher colleagues, grade leader, or veteran teachers
When we create it, we use these steps, write a sentence stem, choose a verb, write what the learner will do
Learning Objective
These colleagues are all apart of this team, Claudia Rerrie BRT Leader, Karolhyn Vega- The Assembly Point Coordinator, Jessica Baity-Special Needs Coordinator, Isabel Vercosa- Incident Assessor, Patricia Pinero- Recorder.
Building Response Team
"Sold a Story"
If you have a child who is not making progress, who is struggling, or who needs social-emotional support and who has not responded to your classroom (Tier 1) interventions, you will begin this with Ms. Baity
Referral Process
This group guides all decisions around curriculum, units of time, program choices, and professional learning planning.
The Instructional Leadership Team
Dr. Longo Exploring Instructional Goals
This meeting happens once a month with the BRT leader, custodian, counselors, school aide supervisor, and uft.
Comprehension is the whole point of reading, but without the solid foundations of instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary it is incredibly difficult to achieve strong comprehension.
The 5 Pillars of Reading Instruction
This platform allows parents and teachers to regularly communicate without sharing personal information. All classroom should have this.
Classroom Dojo
This book and author (activist) were central to the inspiration for the creation and foundation of our school and for this reason.
Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Move beyond the "banking" system of education, to grow children to disrupt the systems that oppress, and to build critical consciousness
This was a key construct in Lev Vygotsky's theory of learning and development. It is defined as the space between what a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
The Zone of Proximal Development
Primary PS 127
Secondary PS 149
Out of Area PS 92
Relocation Sites
Requires explicit instruction in the transfer of CUPS
Writing in all content areas
Calling out
Graduates of East Elmhurst Community School will be: curious and courageous critical thinkers who are active, interdependent, culturally and personally aware community members.
Our Vision
We engage in this when we wonder, investigate, record, discover, think, try, reflect.
Inquiry Learning Cycle
This guide is used when an emergency requires and evacuation and relocation to another building. Dismissal procedures must be conducted in a safe and organized fashion.
Reunification Planning Guide
Builds strong literacy skills. Inferencing, a skill we consistently need to strengthen, is reinforced through thoughtful questioning. Kindergarteners learn how to compare and contrast so that by the time they reach fourth grade, a compare and contrast essay should be second hat. Students also reinforce main idea (what do you see) and supporting details (what do you see that makes you say that).
Painting Study