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Principal's Welcome
2023-2024
Principal’s Message
Welcome back (and for newcomers Welcome To😊) The Madeline V. Leckie Education Campus, home of the Lions. At our school, we pride ourselves on maintaining high expectations for achievement while focusing on the individual needs of each scholar. Our educators ensure that our scholars benefit from engaging lessons that encourage them to think critically and solve real‐world problems daily. Our teachers and staff have high expectations and an unshakable belief that all children deserve a rich, well-rounded, and intentionally designed school education.
We wholeheartedly accept the challenge of loving and educating the whole child while ensuring that adult wellness is aligned as we serve students academically and socially, and emotionally. We understand that this work is not easy and as a result, we depend on the relationship and connection between home and school for scholars to have a successful school year.
There is so much I would love to share with you about the Leckie EC experience! For now, I will share the ones we are most excited about in the upcoming 2023 -2024 school year.
Academic Structure: Each grade level is outfitted with a reading teacher, a math teacher, an instructional aide, a special educator, and a reading and math interventionist that supports during the instructional block. On average there are 2-3 adults working in a classroom at any given time. Students are grouped, and assessed and their progress is tracked bi-weekly.
Transcend: This year we are proud to announce our continued partnership with the DCPS Whole Child Collaborative. 90% of students reported they felt loved in our Student Sucess Survey. This program supports both adult and child mental health and wellness. After the pandemic, we wanted to be proactive about acknowledging the impacts of Covid-19 on children and staff such as the loss of a loved one(s), grief, depression, and lack of socialization. Our partnership with Transcend will help teachers and staff to create space to build emotional intelligence, empathy, and care for themselves and others.
Parents at LECKIE: PAL was founded through the belief that when parents are actively involved – all students achieve more. PAL meets monthly to discuss how they can collectively support their children and Leckie school-wide initiatives. We understand that every parent is dedicated to the success of their child and school. We also know everyone has prior commitments and time constraints. It's our goal to create a variety of ways parents can get involved in formal and informal ways. Keep checking our monthly newsletters to learn about more opportunities for parent engagement.
2023 Highlights: In our 2023 Student Success survey 90% of students reported feeling loved and supported at school.Leckie was awarded a 23 million dollar grant for school modernization. This year we added additional mental health specialists to our team and significantly increased the number of students we served.
There is good, hard but exciting and fulfilling work to be done. The Leckie team and I are ready and we look forward to partnering with you this school year.
Niyeka Wilson
Principal
Before and Aftercare
Uniforms
Upcoming Dates
Back to School Night
Positive Chalk DC
DCPS Calendar
First Day of School Arrival and Dismissal Procedures
ARRIVAL - Doors open at 8:30 AM
*There is no Morning or AfterCare this week*
Grades K - 5 will enter through the main entrance doors. Please follow the Grade level signs to the correct screening station.
Middle School students will enter through the Chesapeake Ave entrance via Door 2. Cell phones will be locked in cell phone lockers before students are directed to class. Please ensure your scholar has a combination lock on the first day.
For safety, all families will go through an enrollment screening process. Please do not drop and go.
Pick Up Authorization
Please fill out the following survey with the student pick-up plan. Students will only be released ONLY to the specified adult with a photo ID.
https://forms.office.com/r/Askmb6jZwx
DISMISSAL
Please pick up your scholar outside of the door identified below.
THE PICK-UP PERSON MUST BRING ID. Teachers will release students only to the pick-up person identified upon drop-off.
Dismissal locations by grade level:
Door #1 2nd grade, 5th grade - Front Door off MLK
Door #2 Kinder and 1st grade First Cafe door by front door
Door #4 Bus riders Chesapeake door closest JBAB
Door #5 Middle School adjacent to door 4 (Chesapeake side of building)
Door #7 ECE MLK exit
Door #8 3rd, 4th grade closest to MLK
Before and AfterCare Links
Before Care
Pre k - 8: Leckie Lions
https://forms.office.com/r/H63M2FTgxx
START DATE: Sept 5th
Aftercare
Pre k - Kindergarten: Leckie Lions
https://dcpsafterschoolpreenroll.powerappsportals.com/
START DATE: August 28th
Grades 1 - 4: The Fishing School
https://www.fishingschool.org/enrollment/
START DATE: Sept 5th
Grades 5-8: Afterschool All Stars
https://form.jotform.com/230786811718160
START DATE: Sept 5th
Need support? Have Questions? Call Ms. Jenny (310) 944-1171
Leckie Education Campus
Email: jenny.anderson@k12.dc.gov
Website: https://www.leckielionsdc.com
Location: 4201 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue Southwest, Washington, DC, USA
Phone: 2026403330
Twitter: @leckie_lions