• Discipline Rates
• Numbers of FARMS students
• Special Education student enrollment
• Title I Status
• Quarterly Assessments scores - English
• Quarterly Assessments scores - Mathematics
• PARCC Scores - Mathematics (Elementary grades 3, 4, 5)
• PARCC Scores - English/Language Arts (Elementary grades 3, 4, 5)

Meade Heights Elementary is a Title One school in Ft. Meade. The students at Meade Heights come from diverse cultural and familial backgrounds. Providing a strong foundation in social and emotional well being is of the utmost importance for our children. Our school building is a positive, loving environment. Students are genuinely excited to enter the doors at Meade Heights to begin learning. Students and families are greeted with open arms and a smile. Affirmations and quotes line the hallway to help students stay focused on the positive. Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking is fostered in the learning environment. Teachers strive to connect and build lasting relationships with students. To continue to support social-emotional learning, resource staff members will act as mentors to students. Each resource teacher will plan activities surrounding social skills to interact with children during breakfast at least once a month; with the purpose being to provide effective strategies to help regulate emotions. Our school counselor works to be teach differentiated social skills groups based on identified social, emotional, and behavioral goals of our students.

There are currently 19 classroom teachers school wide. Our instructional resource staff is comprised of two reading specialists, two math teachers, one school counselor, a learning lab technician, and many dedicated teacher’s assistants. There are approximately 400 students enrolled at Meade Heights. The current enrollment breakdown of the school by grade level are as follows: ECI-26 Pre-k-41 Kindergarten-64 1st-63 2nd-56 3rd-47 4th-37 5th-66 Meade Heights Elementary hosts a EEE (Enhancing Elementary Excellence) program. The Enhancing Elementary Excellence for Meade Heights is STEM.

Throughout the school year, we are fortunate to have a full time STEM teacher, who instructs the children in developing project based learning once a week. Additionally, STEM days are incorporated in the school calendar four times a year. Students collaborate in groups to create hands on projects and explore STEM opportunities. Critical thinking skills, perseverance, and problem-solving strategies are explicitly modeled and taught in weekly instruction. STEM Day is a fun time for all teachers in weekly instruction. STEM Day is a fun time for all teachers and students to genuinely enjoy meaningful learning experiences. We are fortunate to have after school clubs and enrichment activities in the area of STEM, hosted by teachers and staff members of Meade Heights. There is also a Title I reading and math extended day program, held after school to support students in reading and math content areas.

 

The primary instructional reading focus for 2018-19 aligns with of our district’s strategic plans; to increase the number of students reading on grade level by the end of 2nd grade. Daily reading instruction will be taught to all students. Currently, teachers differentiate student learning through the use of hands on materials, providing flexible seating options, and cooperative learning groups, where children collaborate with one another to complete various instructional tasks. Creating an equitable classroom environment where all students feel cared for, safe, and have a close connection to their teachers and peers.

 

At Meade Heights, we are revamping our PBIS program, to include community building and connections schoolwide, by implementing the house systems. Students and teachers are divided into four houses (Altruismo, Amistad, Reveur, and Isibindi). Within each house students will engage in team building activities and learn social and behavioral characteristics. The Mighty 7 school expectations will be reinforced throughout the school day as well as during monthly house meetings. The Mighty 7 Expectations are as follows:

• Stand to speak
• Acknowledge others by greeting them
• Respectfully respond to adults
• Celebrate others successes
• Make eye contact
• Honesty is the best policy
• Keep our school community clean

 

The Meade Heights Family welcomes open communication with families in our building for Title I events throughout the school year. These events will support curriculum outcomes and increase the understanding of content students are instructed on in reading, math, writing, and/or STEM.

Parents will have the opportunity to connect with their children using content based activities. Our school team is incredibly excited to host our families and look forward to a productive school year.

School wide trends have noted that when students transition from 2nd to 3rd grade, reading content becomes more challenging. In reviewing the spring 2018 data, most of the 1st graders were reading below grade level. The data analyzed focused the teams attention to developing a SIP action to support our reading deficits. The goal is to provide specific reading instruction, in the early childhood grades (Prek to 2) during guided reading by conferring with students to model specific reading strategies that children can eventual use independently while reading any tasks.

• Inclusion of Triple E (EEE)
• Inclusion of Support Staff

The support staff at Meade Heights Elementary are key team members in the success of our school. Interventionist and teacher's assistant work diligently with students in reading and mathematics. Resource staff members support primary grade level teachers in planning quality reading instruction to students and providing professional development to build teacher capacity in reading.

• Significant changes over time in student/community demographics
• Access (or lack of access) to community financial programs
• Access (or lack of access) to community social programs