Its two weeks into the school year and I have already completed four home visits! We are well on our way to our goal of 100% of home visits before November. When the idea of home visits was first presented to me I was skeptical. My school is located in a disadvantaged neighborhood where parents often…
Wow! Summer zoomed by so quickly and now its back to school with a new group of little ones. I had forgotten how challenging the first few weeks of school can be, especially for students who have never been in a school setting before. Learning that there is a special way to ask for the…
I’ve spent practically the whole summer vacation planning for next school year. I started by evaluating the standards and goals from last year and revising them based on what worked and what didn’t. Now I am in the process of writing our interim assessments that will measure student progress throughout the year. Because my school…