Our INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS statement (revised September, 2007):
The instructional focus of Lansdowne School is reading comprehension with links to writing. Through school-wide teaching strategies, all students will show measurable growth in reading and writing. Student success will be measured through the use of HLAT's and interim measures.
During the 2006-2007 school year, Lansdowne teaching staff:
- continued to use the best practices of Multiple Intelligence Programming and Graphic Organizers in all classrooms.
- supported 100% of students to participate in our home reading program - we are very pleased with our results. See below!
- 100% of our students have read for 25 nights
- 100% of our students have read for 50 nights
- 93% of our students have read for 75 nights
- 84% of our students have read for 100 nights
- 73% of our students have read for 125 nights
- 64% of our students have read for 150 nights
- 46% of our students have read for 175 nights
- 42% of our students have read for 200 nights
- 26% of our students have read for 225 nights
- 12% of our students have read for 250 nights
- participated in three instructional walk-throughs at District Schools, one of which was hosted here at Lansdowne.
- collaborated with District staff at Youngstown School in an effort to build expertise in best practices to improve student achievement (regular teacher collaborative sessions).
- explored the possibility of participating in professional development with our partner school in the area of writing.
- attended District training as an Instructional Leadership Team, and brought information back to staff to share.
- exploring the subject of "Igniting Literacy through Literature" presented by Australian author Mem Fox, at our November 24, 2006 PD day.
