Academics

Caring support to help your child thrive academically and socially

Park Brook Elementary is a school with a Focus on Fitness to increase academic growth.  Our emphasis on physical fitness brings health benefits to students and supports academic achievement.

Reading
The building-wide schedule is designed to allow support staff to support students during core instruction and provide reading interventions during the intervention block. 

Interventions are provided for students of all ability levels, including those above grade level, to ensure students of all reading levels are making academic progress.

In kindergarten and 1^st grade, additional support is provided to all students by the speech/language teacher to increase phonics and phonemic awareness proficiency. 

Math
The building-wide schedule is designed to allow our additional math teacher to pull a group of 12 students out of the general education classroom to reduce the size of instruction groups.  This group of students works with grade-level standards and maintains the same pace as the general education classroom.  However, this group of 12 students works in a group with a math teacher AND ESP (Education Support Paraprofessional) to increase support.  This group of students also receives 30 minutes of pre-teaching intervention during the intervention block. The intervention teacher and math teacher work closely together to monitor student progress.

There is a math intervention block in most grades that allows students to participate in the pre-teaching intervention, receive special education services related to math that allows students to participate in core math instruction, or from the general education classroom teacher.

Park Brook Elementary students work on math fact fluency with 3-minute timed tests (grades 1 – 5) each month.  The purpose is to have students memorize math facts so that they can participate in math discussions and proficiently work math problems.

Goals
Students in grades 3 – 5 set goals along with action items.  The students set goals in reading, math, and physical fitness.  The goals and action steps are recorded in their individual planners.

C-Lab
Some schools call the C-Lab a Maker Space.  The idea is the same.  The C-Lab (Creativity Lab) is designed to allow students to simply create and think.  All students have the opportunity to self-select to participate in the C-Lab during recess every few weeks.

Physical Education and Music
Students participate in physical education and music every other day.