Bunker, Kennedy, Lincoln, Milani and Snow are Leadership Funded schools. Our focused effort in the Newark Elementary Leadership Cluster, or our goal, is to foster student empowerment. Our activities to reach this goal are to broaden the social and ethical development of our students and to deepen our literacy efforts already underway. To help facilitate reaching this goal and the activities that accompany it, we have - upper and lower grade Literacy Coordinators at every school. The Literacy Coordinators provide professional development for our teachers, assist in assessing students, model the best practices of teaching and learning, observe teachers instructing, and offer valuable feedback.
Students are our focal point.
We will continually refer back to this question, we will look at the data to compile and learn, and we will progressively work at refining our instruction, until we have answered this question in the positive. In partnership with the District Office, it has set a goal of all students achieving a math level that will qualify them for Algebra in the 9th grade. These houses meet weekly to compare progress on programs and individual students.