About The cubs!

OUR MISSION

In strong collaboration with all community stakeholders, we believe that all students can meet high standards of excellence within a safe and nurturing environment. We are committed to standards-aligned curriculum in all content areas while integrating social-emotional practices. When coupled with targeted professional development, we address the cognitive and social-emotional growth of our community. We believe in a culturally responsive curriculum that embraces our diversity. We provide equitable opportunities for our students to become independent, confident risk takers through the cultivation of academic life skills such as foundational literacy, critical thinking, and technological competency. This will set all students on a path to becoming college and career ready and enable them to rise to the challenges of our ever-changing society.

At PS 20 we believe our students learn  when they are empowered and challenged to do their best. Knowing every student deeply through both academic and social/emotional measures will enable us to bring out excellence and make them a positive force for change. Their future is entrusted to us and we will advocate and strive to help them reach their maximum potential. We are committed to the success of all of our students.

OUR VISION

Theory of Action

If school leaders cultivate a data driven culture using multiple sources of evidence (observations, screeners, formative/summative assessment etc.) through collaborative inquiry with the ILT and PLC to provide job embedded coaching and responsive professional learning experiences to implement the literacy shifts with quality. 

Then teachers will be able to use the feedback from the sources of evidence to provide targeted tiered support and analyze their teaching for impact. 

Then students will be able to set and monitor personal goals academic, social and emotional and use evidence to monitor their progress. 

Non-negotiables:

All classrooms must be comprised of the following:

Student Discourse/protocols 

Skills based small group instruction 

MTTS in action 

Standards based checklist (assessment) 

Explicit instruction

Student voice and choice 

Authentic Student engagement 

Student created goals (ELA, MATH, SEL) 

Sound Walls 

Lexile Libraries 

Hall Passes 

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