Newport News
March Notes from Miss Estrada
Response to Intervention
What is RTI?
We know that students learn in different ways and at different rates. This is why we highly value and place a priority on RTI. Through our RTI rotations, we are able to differentiate instruction to ensure students’ needs are being met. During RTI rotations, the student to teacher ratio is decreased for all students because of our additional RTI staff. Children who need additional time and support to meet grade-level expectations work in smaller groups to close the gap. Students who are performing at or beyond grade-level receive extension and enrichment instruction and activities geared to take their learning even further.
How does it work?
With the help of the Newport El Foundation, we are able to hire 5 credentialed, part-time teachers to be part of RTI Rotations. The classroom teachers and RTI teachers work together to assess students' needs, form flexible groups, plan differentiated instruction, and monitor students' progress. During RTI rotations (40 minutes per day, 4 days per week), students learn in targeted smaller groups than their homeroom class. Without these 5 teachers, we would not be able to do RTI rotations in this way.
What is the benefit?
RTI rotations allow us to individualize instruction, helping students to grow in their academics and self-confidence. Since implementing RTI rotations, our scores on the state test have increased by 9.67% in Language Arts and 10.08% in Math. RTI is critical to students' success and our success as a school.
Kindergarten Round Up
Attendees will learn more about our school, a day in the life in kindergarten, and the enrollment process.
Thursday, Mar 19, 2020, 06:00 PM
Newport Elementary School, West Balboa Boulevard, Newport Beach, CA, USA
Spotlight on Safety
Throughout the year we, like all schools, conduct fire, earthquake and lock down drills as part of our emergency preparedness plan. Due to our unique location, we also need to have an emergency plan in the event there was a tsunami. In the unlikely event of a tsunami, our emergency response would vary depending on how much warning time we have.
Later this month we will conduct an evacuation drill as part of the National Tsunami Preparedness week. I will share more information about the drill when it gets closer.
This may be a good time to think about your family's plan and preparedness for a tsunami. The city of Newport Beach has some great resources.
Monthly Read Aloud
Attendance
Way to go! We have less absences and tardies this February than we did last February. Keep up the great work!
2019:
Absences: 421
Tardies: 361
2018
Absences: 549
Tardies: 443
March Dates
March 6 - Flag Deck - Hula for Moola Kick Off - online auction launches
March 9-13 - Conference Week - early dismissal at 1:00
March 11- No school for students
March 20 - Flag Deck
March 16-20 - Art Masters lessons
March 19 - Kindergarten Round Up
March 28 - Hula for Moola
March 30 - Imagination Machine assembly