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School Summary
Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School is a school committed to empowering students to meet high expectations by creating a respectful, responsible, positive, and collaborative learning environment. As a community, we believe collaborative teaching and learning will empower both teachers and students to meet challenges and overcome obstacles to learning. We feel we all must work together as a team to support each individual child’s success.
To accomplish this, our staff is a Professional Learning Community. We continuously analyze data and student needs and look for ways to improve our instruction. Each grade level meets in collaborative learning teams to plan instruction, create shared understanding, discuss best practices, reflect on instructional practice, design assessments, analyze data, and plan intervention and enrichment. This cycle enables us to not only meet each child’s need, but also to grow, learn and improve our practice as professional educators.
This year our staff will focus on the following initiatives to improve instruction and narrow the achievement gap: - Implement Lesson Study in mathematics
- Use Think Blocks to promote cognitive thinking strategies
- Create structured grade level focus areas in writing
- Integrate Kagan Structures across curriculum to increase student engagement in learning
- Support students in setting and achieving goals for personal and academic growth
At Mount Vernon Woods students benefit from a safe, positive, and caring learning environment with multiple opportunities for achieving.
Last Updated: 2009-07-21
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