The JourneyElon Park Elementary, South Learning Community

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VisionAt Elon Park Elementary, staff, students, families and community members collaborate to provide an extraordinary learning environment where all reach their full potential, enrich their individual talents and exhibit school pride…at ALL times, in EVERYTHING they do.

MissionAt Elon Park Elementary, the school community will support the commitment to the following:• Providing every student with rigorous, engaging and

balanced instruction.• Basing all decisions on student strengths and needs

according to all available data.• Appropriate, effective collaboration among staff, families

and community members for the benefit of each student. • Facilitation of 21st century learning through implementation

of best practices.• Delivery and participation in effective professional

development.• Continuous school improvement.• 180 School Days resulting in a minimum of one year’s

growth academically for every student.

Coffee Chat Norms

•Please put cell phones on vibrate•If you have to take a call, please go into the hallway•Limit sidebar conversations•Hold questions until the end of each segment•Focus on issues that are within our control

Today’s Agenda:

1. 2013-2014 Student Achievement Data

2. Achieve 225

3. Words Their Way

4. BOY Assessments

5. Rumor has it…

6. Parent Feedback

2014-2015 Leadership Team

• Chuck Fortuna – Principal• Jane Armbruster – Assistant

Principal• Craig Higgins – Dean of Students• Jason Geiger – Principal Intern• Mary Strawderman – Facilitator• Jill Boyajy - Facilitator

Celebrations

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- Top 50 schools -

Rank School4 Elizabeth Lane Elementary School Matthews5 Providence Spring Elementary School Charlotte 7 McKee Road Elementary School Charlotte8 Ballantyne Elementary School Charlotte16 Beverly Woods Elementary School Charlotte17 Hawk Ridge Elementary School Charlotte 19 Polo Ridge Elementary School Charlotte29 Elon Park Elementary School Charlotte30 Waddell Language Academy Charlotte 34 Collinswood Language Academy Charlotte

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2017 • Dorothea Heath, Lisa Maples, Lisa Pagano, and Mary Strawderman have been selected as participants in the Governor’s Teacher Network (Most of any CMS School)

Achieve 225• Grant awarded to Elon Park and 22

other schools in CMS.• 100% Teacher Led.• Focuses on preferred play.• Provides common rules. • Teaches conflict resolution

strategies.• Reasoning for grant adoption at Elon

Park.

Why Achieve 225?

Words Their WayResearch based word study. A major shift from traditional spelling.

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