School+Environment+Report

= School Environment Report=



=Sunset Park’s personnel breakdown = Principal – 1 Assistant Principal – 1

Instructional Personnel
Kindergarten – 10 First grade – 13 Second grade – 11 Third grade – 11 Fourth grade - 9 Fifth grade – 8 Special Area - 6 Exceptional Education – 3.5 Resource – 5

Classified Personnel
Cafeteria - 5 Custodial - 4 Office staff – 6 Paraprofessionals – 8

Each grade level has a team leader. The principal and assistant principal meets with the team leaders on a regular basis to inform them of information that needs to be communicated with the rest of their teams. Staff meetings are also held once a month.

Students attend special areas on a ten day rotation. The special areas they attend are art, music, reading-writing lab, science, computers and physical education.

The media center is on a combination fix/flexible schedule. Teachers can sign up for a weekly time if they wish. Small groups are also welcome. Kindergarten and first grade also have story time on an every other week schedule. Classes are offered both by request and the offered “Lesson of the month”.

All of the instructional staff has received bachelor’s degrees from accredited institutions. We have approximately 10% of our teachers that are considered highly qualified and are currently taking classes in the education field. Master’s degrees are held by 15% of our instructional staff.

The support staff members have all completed high school and have some college completed. College degrees are held by 30% of our support staff.

Our school offers special services to help our students. An after school tutoring program is available for our at risk students in grades three, four, and five. Bussing is also provided home. During the day, we also target our at risk students in all grades with one on one tutoring along with small group pull outs.

//School Vision From the 2008-2009 SAC Plan://

Sunset Park Elementary will be a community of learners with the desire to become life-long learners and to soar towards academic excellence and to be the producer of successful students in the nation.

The media center is a key part of our school environment. The media center is there to help the students become a community of learners by helping those select reading materials that they both are interested in and that they need to complete assignments given by teachers. The media center is also a resource for the teachers to assist with lessons, both with the selection of materials and assisting with lessons and projects.  //Reading Objective From the 2008-2009 SAC Plan:// A Reading Coach will be provided to assist faculty with implementing scientifically based reading strategies, guided reading groups, and improving intervention strategies. Our teachers will continue to progress monitor our students with extra emphasis placed on the lowest 25%.Additionally, tutoring will be offered (either before or after school) to those students in the lowest quartile. Data meetings will be conducted to address student needs and monitor progress. Teachers will be instructed on how to analyze SuccessMaker reports to address individual student needs. FCAT Reading scores will be analyzed and shared with instructional staff and parents . The media center works with the reading coach to help with materials the teachers will need to help implement the reading strategies. This is done by providing professional materials the teachers can refer to in order to help find and implement new strategies. The media center also helps to provide literature that can be used to implement strategies.

//Math Objective From the 2008-2009 SAC Plan //

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teachers at Sunset Park will focus on implementing and evaluating effective math instruction. The main strategies for math improvement will be to analyze various assessments and identify math skill levels of all students. The Everyday Math series will be used with additional practice from computer software, such as Success Maker and FCAT Explorer. Training and resources will be offered to teachers to support the adopted math series. Data meetings will be conducted to monitor student progress and needs. Students with math deficiencies will be identified and additional time for these students <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will be scheduled on Success Maker. FCAT math scores will be analyzed and shared with instructional staff and parents. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The media center helps to provide the resources suggested with the Everyday Math series. Literature books that can be used to connect to the math curriculum can be found in our collection. //<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-USmsoFareastLanguage;">Writing Objective From the 2008-2009 SAC Plan // <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-USmsoFareastLanguage;"> Teachers at Sunset Park are focused on implementing an effective writing curriculum school wide. Teachers have been trained to use “Write Traits.” Students are provided opportunities to practice, share and publish their writing. Data meetings will be conducted to review student needs and monitor their progress. Students also attend a Reading/Writing Lab for special areas in which they further explore their writing styles. FCAT Writes scores will be shared and analyzed with instructional staff and parents.

The media center works with the teachers and the Reading/Writing lab teacher to provide literature that can be used to help implement these writing objectives. Professional books have been purchased and are available for all teacher that assist in enhancing student writing. //<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-USmsoFareastLanguage;">Science Objective From the 2008-2009 SAC Plan // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-USmsoFareastLanguage;">Teachers will be trained to use the Science series-Scott-Foresman and increase the use of hands-on activities to develop a stronger foundation of the scientific process. Science will continue to be a school wide special area class that emphasizes hands-on, high level experiments which correlate to each grade level. FCAT science data will be analyzed and shared with the instructional staff and parents.

The media center works with the classroom teachers to help implement hands on activities in the classroom. Science non fiction books have been added to the collection to enhance our science curriculum.

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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-US;">FCAT Scores
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunset Park Elementary received an A for the 2008-2009 school year. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In July 2008, 74 percent of all students at Sunset Park Elementary made learning gains. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In July 2008, 69 percent of the lowest 25% of the students taking the FCAT Reading at Sunset Park Elementary made learning gains.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">Reading || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">In July 2008, 88 percent of all students taking the FCAT Reading test at Sunset Park Elementary scored at Level 3 or above.

|| <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In July 2008, 73 percent of all students at Sunset Park Elementary made learning gains. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In July 2008, 70 percent of the lowest 25% of the students taking the FCAT Math at Sunset Park Elementary made learning gains.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">Math || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">In July 2008, 84 percent of all students taking the FCAT Math test at Sunset Park Elementary scored at Level 3 or above.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">Writing || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In July 2008, 72 percent of all students taking the FCAT Writing test at Sunset Park Elementary scored at Level 3.5 or above.

|| <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The media center is the heart of learning. As the media specialist, it is my job to help the teachers achieve learning gains in all of our students. I work with the teachers to see how I can enhance the collection to reach the students that are struggling. As part of my program, I provide programs that assist the teachers with the curriculum and presenting it to the students.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">Science || <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">In July 2008, 65 percent of all students taking the FCAT Science test at Sunset Park Elementary scored at Level 3.0 or above. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;"> ||