Welcome!
The purpose of this blog is to provide a tool for parents, teachers and staff at Greenbrier Elementary to share ideas & information and to build community. With this in mind...
Please make sure that your comments are constructive and appropriate for ALL members of the Greenbrier Elementary community.
The views you express here are your own. You alone are responsible for what you write. When you post you must do so under your full, real name - no anonymous posting or ficticious names, please.
If you'd like to buy or sell something please do not do it through this blog. As part of our fund raising activities, we might mention area businesses on the blog, but mentioning those names is not an endorsement of them or their products by the PTO.
The PTO may block any posts on this blog at its discretion.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
I will try my best to summarize our discussion with Mrs. Atkins. We had a lengthy question and answer session with her. Here are the main topics I recall:
1 - There will be after-school intervention next year at the elementary schools.
2 - The pilot 3-year-old preschool class will be housed at Clark. They are not yet sure of the hours and who will be in the pilot class.
3 - Mrs. Atkins would like to see foreign language immersion at the elementary schools. She would like to see this start in 2008 but it will depend on that year’s budget.
4 - How our middle schools are set up will be reviewed starting in the fall with any possible changes to be implemented the following fall. Mrs. Atkins said all voices and opinions will be heard from the whole community. She said there will be different models for the community to review and comment on, including the current set-up.
5 - They are working on a curriculum for critical thinking. Mrs. Atkins said we have to meet the No Child Left Behind standards but we also need to work on important skills, like critical thinking.
6 - Regarding school safety, Mrs. Atkins said they met with police Chief Longo after the County school bomb threat. They continue to work with him on crisis plan reviews. They are also working on a way to alert parents how to pick up their children in the event of a crisis.
Someone else, please fill in the parts I missed!
Regarding foreign language immersion, what languages did Mrs. Atkins mention?
Thx,
Jennifer Brecht
She said she thought the start would be with Spanish.
Willa
Post a Comment