“We are family!”
Principal: Marlene R. Gamba
Edgewood Highland Elementary School
160 Pawtuxet Ave.
Cranston, Rhode Island 02905-4044
401- 270-8065
Dear Parents and
Students,
Welcome to another exciting year of learning at Edgewood Highland. Our
staff has been busy attending workshops and sprucing up classrooms. Some of the
workshops included "School wide Evaluation of Our Title One Program,
Family Involvement-School Compact, Technology as a tool to Improve Instruction,
Destiny World Book on Line, and Review of SmartBoard use in the
Classroom. Our professional development will continue through out the
year with workshops for math, literacy and technology
This year, throughout
the district, we are continuing to ask teachers and administrators to
shift the focus from teaching to learning. In other words, how do we
learn best. The success of any new learning endeavor is when teachers and
students both realize we are learning together everyday.
In our effort to
have better communication between home and school, we ask parents to please
give us an email address so that we can add you to the family list serve.
If you do not have a computer, notices will still be sent home.
The staff completed a
very extensive self study which we will use to prepare ourselves for our SALT
visit the week of March 10-14. Our PTO/Family involvement Committee is
now part of our School Improvement process and they have aligned all their
activities to our school improvement plan. We are very excited
about showing how much we have grown from our last SALT visit in 2000/2001.
The 2006/2007 NECAP
testing has distinguished Edgewood as a high performing
school. We met all our target goals and all of our students are making
progress. Therefore to maintain this status, we will continue our
focus in both math and writing. We also will continue
to work on Science. We want to emphasize an inquiry base approach in
Science. Our students must be able to pose questions and learn how to solve problems
through experimentation, much like scientists do everyday. We welcome the
challenge!
Parents we ask you to
become involved by attending our PTO/Family Involvement Meetings. Attend all
our literacy events and keep in contact with your child's teacher.
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