Welcome to 2023-2024!
Welcome to a great, new school year! We have gotten off to an amazing start already! I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new staff members: Mrs. Lisa Dorn – 5th Grade Teacher, Mrs. Theresa Sharp – 2nd Grade Teacher, Mrs. Kristin Larkins – 1st Grade Teacher, Ms. Nancy Nevarez – Learning Specialist, and Ms. Cassandra Ewert-Lamutt – ESL Teacher. We also have new member to our amazing paraprofessional team – Stacy Atkins, Alison Meara, Jen Piel, Kim Wheeler, and Kelly Whitcomb.
Assessments and School Goals
Great News! We have received our students’ CMAS data from last year and their achievement continues to lead the area, district, and state in almost all content areas and in all grades. In fact, our students scored in the top 4% of Colorado schools for English Language Arts and the top 3% for Math! Congratulations to our students, staff, and families for such great learning results!
For our new school year, teachers have spent the first few weeks of the year getting to know all of our students and gathering assessment data so that effective instruction can be planned. All of this information will be shared with parents at our October conferences.
We have two school goals this year in reading. One is to increase student growth as measured by MAP data, and the other is to increase the number of K-3rd grade students who reach benchmark on the DIBELS by the end of the year. Teachers who teach reading will set their Individual Educator Goal around reading instruction for their students. Other staff members, such as our school psychologist and STEM, DTL, Art, Music, and PE teachers, will set goals that best represent their work with students. Goals for Mrs. Kruse, our Assistant Principal, Mrs. Nickerson, our Instructional Coach, and me are directly tied to the teachers’ goals.
As always, if you have a question, comment, or suggestion, please call the office, stop by, or email me at smills@jeffco.k12.co.us.
