Seventh District Elementary

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BCPS Vision: Baltimore County Public Schools will be among the highest performing school systems in the nation as a result of creating, sustaining, and investing in excellence for every student, every school, and every community.

School Mission: The dedicated and committed staff will build relationships that facilitate students’ achievement of personal and academic growth through responsive instruction and collaboration.

Literacy

Goal: All students will achieve literacy proficiency as indicated by the MCAP assessment.

Raise the Bar

Close the Gap

Instructional Focus: We will explicitly model, teach, and practice strategies so that students are able to analyze and evaluate text in order to respond to questions that are beyond and about the text.

Instructional Focus: We will utilize the targeted CCRS and end-of-unit assessment reflect the level of rigor expected of the grade level standards and include a range of text complexity and a variety of genres.

Math

Goal: All students will achieve mathematics proficiency as indicated by the MCAP assessment.

Raise the Bar

Close the Gap

Instructional Focus: We will deliver specific instruction on various problem-solving strategies for students to utilize.

Instructional Focus: We will provide opportunities for students to use and understand mathematical discourse and to communicate ideas in writing.

Climate

Goal: Develop and implement strategies and activities to improve students’ executive functioning skills including self-regulation and self-management skills.

Focus: Consistently teach and implement strategies and activities generated from Conscious Discipline to provide students with social skills instruction to support social/emotional learning of empathy, problem solving and anger management.