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FlorenceSawyerSchool
from FY24 Budget Book
Our school’s work on social/ emotional learning has helped our students gain the tools of self-awareness and self-regulation The strategic plan and the target review conducted by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education pointed to the need to add additional counseling support to the school. As a result, we are shifting one guidance counselor from NRHS to FSS to support students. Additionally, we are seeking to add a Dean of Students to our leadership team. The Dean of Students would primarily work with our middle school students allowing for a concentrated approach to building positive relationships with students, coordinating our advisory program and working with families. This position will allow additional flexibility for administrators; (the principal and assistant principals ) to work more closely with teachers on teaching strategies and analysis of student data.
The NRSD budget is crucial to our work in teaching and learning. Our elementary teachers in kindergarten through the fifth grade will be entering their second year of implementation of the Bridges Math Program. We have already started to see the impact these curriculum materials are having with rich conversations about mathematics principles and ideas. We will be supported by a math specialist with leadership responsibilities in a coaches role. In addition, we will support students in their literacy development by utilizing a literacy specialist in a similar fashion to math specialist focusing on coaching teachers and leading our MTSS efforts described in the teaching and learning section.
As the second-grade cohort moves into third grade the cohort will need four teachers instead of five for the cohort. This is a result of applying our classroom size standards of 22-1 for grades kindergarten through two and 24-1 for grades three through twelve. Combined with the reduction of the district-wide instructional technology support position assigned to the FSS budget these adjustments will be budget neutral to the school district.
