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I reinforcing Cocoa's Fab Four rules—Safety,Respect, Overall shifts in DIBELS indicate the Kenneth C. Responsibility and Ready to Learn while dovetailing Coombs School is effective in teaching literacy and t these rules with our Second Step behavior program. To reading skills to young children as all Fall,Winter and 1 facilitate consistency between home and school, Spring scores indicated improvement and evidenced Parents were provided with the Second Step Video for positive shifts and progress. families to view at home. They were also informed of g the progress of the Second Step units throughout the Continuing the tradition of a parting gift and e year. With staff and parent support,students developed lasting memory, Kim Palmer, Art Teacher, and our g social competence and bully-busting skills in the core grade two students,partnered with Square One Tile and d areas of empathy, emotion management, and social created a beautiful salt-water marsh tile mural that y problem solving. Educators have used the hangs in the halls of the Coombs School. Each year, ;s opportunities of routine school issues to teach positive Mrs. Palmer produces magnificent student-generated c social-emotional skills to all children. art work which in the past have included stained glass d mosaics hanging in the front of the building,a weaved ,n Teachers have received professional development community Mandela displayed in the main office,and in the use and strategies for gathering information from beautiful wildlife tile mural surrounding the windows students for learning assessment. With the data of the guidance suites. y collected,student achievement was monitored in order ie to deliver targeted support and interventions. Teachers Through the Physical Education Program (PEP) ;e continued implementing differentiated, targeted Grant,(a federally-funded grant to initiate,expand,and al instruction based on results and conclusions from the improve physical education programs) our students r. data. Much of the work was carried out in professional were assessed using pedometers to monitor their daily .n learning communities which met weekly as well as on physical activities and surveyed to track healthy eating ie full-day professional development days. Staff worked habits and physical endurance and agility. They were le collaboratively in Professional Learning Communities able to participate in weekly before- and after-school e to examine student work,identify academic needs and physical activity programs designed by teachers that at create effective interventions in reading as well as included soccer,karate,an obstacle course with sensory W math. Mary Kate O'Brien, our district math coach, integration, and walking activities. Quality physical Is guided our teachers to utilize assessment tools in our education programs are one of the best ways to help a new Everyday Math Program and analyze the data fight the obesity crisis in America, increase activity r, these assessments provided. The teaching staff levels of our youth, provide school children with a ,y benefited from monthly professional development to positive physical education experience and produce is develop effective teaching strategies with the Everyday other favorable results such as more active and fit :e Math Program. Both Math Night and Science Nights students who exhibit higher academic achievement in o were attended by many families and served to highlight the classroom. Testing of more than three million w activities and projects created by our students. students has shown a direct correlation between fitness n Recognition Day took place in individual classrooms and performance on standardized tests ... "a healthier i, acknowledging each student's accomplishment while body=a healthier mind". A quality physical education e an assembly was held for students who achieved program has led to a reduction of absenteeism, I perfect attendance awards and first and second place disciplinary issues and out-of-school suspension days. d Good Manners certificates. Next year, our goal is to continue helping students d understand,improve and maintain physical well-being, DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early enhancing physical, mental, social, and emotional Literacy Skills) Benchmark testing was completed in development through instruction in physical activities a the Fall,Winter and Spring of 2012 and a report which and motor skills, development of cognitive concepts J produced a specific analysis of student achievement in about fitness and motor skills that support healthy reading throughout the school year was produced at the lifestyles, education in healthy eating habits and r end of the school year.. This information helped nutrition and professional development for physical teachers to monitor students'reading growth allowing education teachers to stay current on physical education them to analyze students' literacy and reading research,issues,trends, and programs. Thanks to the trajectories as they change from one benchmark testing PEP Grant funding, the Coombs School was able to Period to another. purchase and install a traverse climbing wall in the 137