Seaside Elementary School is helping all students develop the world class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the South Carolina graduate by teaching skills through real life connections and problem solving that build a solid foundation for college and career readiness. As stated in our vision, we provide a supportive environment where our students are successful academically and become lifelong learners and productive citizens. The teachers work closely with the instructional coaches to ensure that our students are being offered the most challenging curriculum for all levels.
Seaside is a community and family centered school that celebrates our triumphs and successes of our students and staff. Mr. Matt Novielli was named Top 10 Teacher of the Year for Horry County Schools and Ms. Jodi Lawrence was named Support Staff of the Year. Mr. Novielli also won the Educator of the Year award from CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder). We believe in growing children instructionally, personally, and emotionally as productive citizens in the world. We do this by continuing to be involved in composting in our school this year to help conserve the amount of waste in a positive manner. The school is beginning work with SurfRider Foundation to establish an “ocean-friendly” garden. Also, a new archery club began and the students qualified for the state competition on our first year! Additionally, students demonstrated their technology skills and talents at our HCS District Tech Fair with programming skills and Rubik's Cube abilities. Many special activities were held throughout the year to include Fine Arts Day, Field Day, Great Kindness Challenge, Career Day, Myrtle Beach Marathon, Jump Rope for Heart, and United Way Caring for Kindergarteners. The PTO also sponsored a Family Fitness Night, Spring Festival, and Pastries for Parents The school also had strong participation from the local businesses and communities.
In our desire to grow students individually, our staff and faculty put forth effort in analyzing various measures of data to provide interventions and lessons to make sure that we were meeting the needs of the individual student. Through MAP data, PASS data, DIBELS, teacher observation, and continuous progress monitoring our teachers our teachers were able to set goals and celebrate growth with all of our children.
Effectively implementing digital content was a school-wide focus to help our students move towards using technology as a tool for learning successfully. Teachers and staff members took every effort to differentiate the instruction so that all of our students were able to grow and celebrate success. We utilized programs such as ALEKS, Achieve 3000, and Lexia Core help us to differentiate the needs for our students to achieve maximum instructional growth.
We are proud of our Stingrays inside and outside of the classroom and continue to strive to push them to greatness academically, physically, and emotionally.
Ken Broz, School Improvement Council
