Dear parents and guardians,
Welcome to a new school year! The month of September will be dedicated to establishing routines, with students and teachers getting to know one another and creating community in their classrooms within the greater context of our school community.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Amanda Santos as our community school coordinator. Dr. Santos brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in working with families and community based organizations. In addition to developing and supervising the OASIS after school program, she will be responsible for continuing to work with our partner to assure continued implementation of our community school model.
Our annual Back to School Night will be held on Wednesday, September 15th. In addition to hearing about what your child will be learning from their teacher, I will speak about our student achievement data and what we are doing to improve our testing results in ELA and Math.
Our PTO has developed a great, friendly website that will provide you with information about upcoming activities.
We look forward to seeing you on Back to School Night on September 15th.
Mrs. Taylor
Park Avenue School Improvement Plan
5 Major Goals
Goal #1: To raise levels of student achievement by providing increased opportunities for language and literacy development in all classrooms. To implement this goal we intend to strengthen the ability of children to demonstrate their understanding of written and oral texts beyond the literal level through well-organized and thoughtful writing and the effective use of language mechanics.
Goal #2: to maintain a high level of student achievement in mathematics by providing opportunities for students to solve multi-step problems, make predictions, identify arrangement and patterns, explain reasoning, draw conclusions and analyze situations.
Goal #3: To continue to offer greater opportunities for parent and broader community involvement at Park Avenue through the implementation of a community school program. Broader community involvement will not only enrich our instructional programs but help Park Avenue families secure the resources they will need to improve the quality of their lives and the readiness of their children to learn and experience success in school.
Goal #4: In order to ensure a safe school environment and promote the cognitive, ethical and social-emotional growth of students. Park Avenue will expand its efforts to implement comprehensive Character Education grades K-5.
Goal #5: To implement the use of technology across the content areas to enable students to achieve the National Technology Standards and to use technology as a means of enhancing and modernizing communication among professions within the district, and among the school's faculty, parents and students.