Thank you for your continued efforts to help our students achieve success here at Lincoln. We could not achieve the successes we are achieving without the combined efforts of our faculty and our family members of the school community! Here are some recent highlights of the great work we are doing!
Through our training in differentiated instruction and under the guidance of David Cormier, we are implementing more tiered lessons and more inquiry-based cooperative group learning throughout the school. Differentiated instruction is “educationese” for teaching to the individual needs of each student in a classroom.
We have also adopted our first round of Spencer Henry Strategies school-wide and they are beginning to have an impact and referrals to the office are diminishing. Spencer Henry, a noted professional in the field of classroom management and de-escalation techniques, worked with the Lincoln staff at our October professional development. He gave us a large set of tools teachers can use in their classrooms to help students remain engaged and on-task.
In addition, we have received training last week on creating Performance Assessments, the third leg of our three legged stool (Student Behavior: Spencer Henry – Differentiated Instruction: David Cormier– Rigorous Curriculum: Performance Assessments). A performance Assessment is a series of performance tasks focused on one central theme or idea and is based on the state standards. Performance Assessments are designed to be interdisciplinary and spur the imagination and creativity among students, provide extra support or enrichment for those needing a faster or slower pace, make connections between subjects while increasing the overall rigor in the delivery of the curriculum.
Finally, for students needing additional time or support to reach success, our tier two and tier three support classes (strategies) are moving forward and students are receiving targeted instruction based on their greatest areas of need. Lincoln’s Strategies classes are based on the belief that; (1) becoming proficient in reading and mathematics is a priority for each child’s success; (2) each child is fully capable of becoming proficient in reading or in mathematics, and: (3) each child will continuously work towards becoming proficient in reading and mathematics.
These four areas are tremendously important for our students’ success. The administrative team is very proud of this work you, our students, parents and teachers, are accomplishing in partnership here at Lincoln!
Together, we are making the success for every child at Lincoln our number one priority!
