Academic Achievement
As a school, our purpose is to educate children. We know we are fulfilling this mission when our students achieve academic success. We do this through:
1.) Identifying and Communicating Learning Targets
- Parents will receive an outline of key learning targets for the student's grade level
2.) Creating Goals and Monitoring Progress
- Teachers (grades K-2) and students (grades 3-8) set goals and track progress in the domains of:
- Academics
- Social-Emotional Learning/Executive Functioning Skills
- Language and Cultural Competency
3.) Supporting Students Through Differentiated Instruction and Ability Grouping
- As adults, we accept that everyone has both talents and areas of weakness. Yet, we box our children in with grade-level norms. We just accept that every second grader should read the same anthology and learn the same math concepts simply because our system puts them in the second grade. Such narrow thinking stifles kids, keeping them from reaching their full potential, and can provoke behavior problems and boredom when the material is either too easy or too difficult. At World Compass Academy, we believe we must help students develop areas of weakness and provide them access to instruction and support to soar past normal expectations in areas of strength.
- At World Compass Academy students are grouped by:
- Ability Level for Math and Language Arts
- Grade Level Classrooms for Science, History, Specials, and Foreign Language
Ability Level Grouping:
Kids are pretested to determine their placement and then are grouped with kids needing to master the same skills. In math (grades 1-8) and language arts (grades 5-8) students are separated into ability grouped classrooms. In grade K-4 language arts, students are broken into small groups of students reading on the same or a similar level for small group guided reading instruction, but remain in their homeroom class.
- At World Compass Academy students are grouped by: