2020-21 Performance Report

 

Our teachers engaged with parents and care givers to support distance learning systems with purpose and intent to accelerate learning during the 2020-21 global pandemic.  We celebrated family support at our end of the year Zoom assembly noting we could not have done it without parent partnership!

Beverly Park was a central hub for preparing and distributing meals and food support to area families all year long!  While we missed the hustle and bustle of the cafeteria filled with hungry students, our families appreciated the meal service pick up and we enjoyed staying connected during this very unusual school year.

Beverly Park entered into a partnership agreement with TAF (Technology Access Foundation) to collaborate on Project Based learning environments grounded in equity.  Our students were actively engaged in real world learning through choice and personally meaningful projects.  Students researched, studied, wrote about and presented their critical thinking in various exhibition platforms!  We saw our students unleash a contagious creative energy knowing their ideas were relevant to current world issues and problems. 

We continued to support students through the San Francisco Unified School District Mathematics curriculum to make sense of rigorous math in ways that are creative, interactive, and relevant to students.  Even in remote learning, students were exploring multiple ways to solve problems while learning efficient mathematical procedures and sharing their thinking.

Beverly Park continued to focus on English Language Learning while encouraging our student’s multilingualism to use all their personal language tools to make meaning of learning and improve metalinguistic awareness.  

Reading Partners continued to provide individual student reading tutoring remotely using a new online format.  Community volunteers worked with identified students to support reading improvement and enjoy books and stories with each other. 

Beverly Park teachers implemented daily class meetings to promote positive respectful interactions and encourage a true sense of belonging within their classrooms.  We focused on student and family wellbeing, individual student connections, and we saw our students take on learning in their homes with parents cheering them on the whole way!

Beverly Park teachers, staff and administration focused on encouraging attendance in remote learning and in hybrid return in March.  Students were regularly recognized for their efforts on Zoom, SeeSaw, iReady, and all their respective PE, Music, and extracurricular classes.  Research confirms that regular school attendance directly impacts long term student success.

Overall, a very challenging and rewarding school year where we all adapted to the many difficulties and obstacles presented by the world health pandemic.  We focused on committed communication and building strong relationships and connections with students.  Our students showed up on Zoom daily and we commend our entire Beverly Park learning community for the resiliency and capacity to continue teaching and learning during the most unpredictable time in our history!

We will focus on a safe and fluid return to in person learning.  Our active school Safety Team will implement the outlined recommendations by our district and the Department of Health guidelines to ensure the highest degree of safety for the welfare of our students and staff to return to school in September.

Beverly Park will continue in partnership with TAF (Technology Access Foundation) to implement quality Project Based Learning as a process to inquire, research, study, and contemplate real world problems while integrating reading, writing, mathematics, science, speaking and listening.  Student voice and choice will be at the forefront of everything we do at Beverly Park to empower students in ownership of their learning.

We are excited to implement a new reading curriculum, American Reading Company a thematic inquiry core reading program and materials.  Students will read, write, discuss, think, investigate, and solve problems at ever increasing levels of proficiency.  The curriculum is available in both English and Spanish supporting many of our bilingual learners.  Everyday teachers will engage students with complex multi-perspective texts, rich content, and rigorous writing instruction.  The program materials will provide extensive libraries and continuous built-in formative assessments to provide highest level of supports to ensure all students succeed. 

We will continue to utilize technology (1:1 devices) and digital media strategically and capably to enhance teaching and learning for all.

We will continue to focus on the arts and physical activity to connect students with their own and others cultures, and to the wider world around them.

We will cultivate and nurture effective partnerships with families and our community to strengthen the ties needed for improving student achievement through school to home learning.  We will focus on strong attendance as students return to in person learning at school.  We know that attendance improves when schools engage students and parents in positive ways.

Our school has and will continue to stand alongside indigenous, black, and all communities of color to dismantle racism and ignite reform needed to ensure the basic rights and justice of all humanity.