Brockington Elementary 2019-20 Report Card Narrative
“Soaring to Success” is our motto at Brockington Elementary School. Our mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment to Educate, Equip and Enrich all students for the 21st Century. The South Carolina College and Career Readiness Standards and the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate are the core foundation of our curriculum. We foster a rigorous academic environment that provides differentiated instruction for students, on-going professional development for teachers, and engaging activities for families.
We believe that effective teaching involves providing individual students with different avenues to learning. Our use of balanced literacy through reading and writing workshops allows for differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students. Students engage in small group lessons based on their instructional level and we monitor student growth throughout the year. After analyzing fall MAP scores, teachers and students collaborate to set individual academic goals. Success and growth are celebrated quarterly through MAP Moving parties and honor roll assemblies. When students are not progressing as expected, we utilize a variety of interventions to support their learning. Students strengthen identified areas for improvement through individually prescribed MAP Skills Navigator lessons focused on these areas. Our classroom teachers provide daily, small-group instruction, which supplements classroom literacy teaching for students needing tier three support. In addition, our partnership with the Auntie Karen Foundation during summer reading camp integrates creativity through the arts with reading engagement.
Professional Learning Communities are an essential part of the learning environment for teachers at BES. During weekly PLCs, teachers actively participate in learning new reading and writing strategies to implement in the classroom. Once the strategies have been practiced in the classroom, the teachers collect student work samples as evidence to analyze across grade levels. The school-based Literacy Coach:
● conducts the PLCs and often collaborates with classroom teachers when utilizing the research- based strategies with fidelity
● demonstrates assessment strategies, such as Progress Monitoring, Formative Assessment to progress monitor students academically through utilization of Running Records, Literacy Assessment Portfolios, authentic writing samples, and anecdotal notes.
● models how teachers can create and implement the predictable structures of workshop model within the classroom setting. The teachers have learned to embrace the Lucy Calkins Reading Units of Study Curriculum during Reading Workshop.
The Instructional Coach also provides training on the components of the SCTS 4.0 Rubric.
Family engagement directly impacts student achievement. Our school provides a variety of parent and family involvement activities focused on creating a home environment that supports academic progress. Our Dinner and Data nights allow parents, students, and teachers to review recent assessment data and academic goals.
We are proud of our Brockington Exemplary Eagles. We are committed to Soaring to Success.
