2019-20 Performance Report

 

A highlight early on in the 2019-20 school year was the donation of brand-new warm winter coats for every student at Beverly Park. The coats came through a generous partnership with corporate sponsor Abercrombie and Fitch and Operation Warm. Every student loved their new coat!

Beverly Park also became a CEP (Community Eligibility Provision) School. CEP schools are able to serve free meals to all students, regardless of income, and eliminates concerns of unpaid meal debt. Our students also benefit from the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) receiving free fresh fruits and vegetables in their classrooms and encouraging healthy nutritious lifestyles.

We implemented a new Math program San Francisco Unified School District Mathematics. This program supports all students making sense of rigorous mathematics in ways that are creative, interactive and relevant to their lives and their classrooms today. Students explore multiple ways to solve problems while learning efficient procedures and sharing about their thinking.

We focus on English Language Learning while encouraging student’s multilingualism and using all their language tools to make meaning of learning and improve their metalinguistic awareness.

Reading Partners, a well-established program at Beverly Park, was showcased to the Seattle media for its impact in supporting young readers. Reading Partners is a community-based volunteer tutoring program supporting striving readers in grades K-4. In the 2019-20 school year, more than 53 community volunteers spent time twice weekly reading and supporting 63 students to improve their love and skill for reading!

We continued to utilize Positive Behavior Supports and RULER to address student’s social and emotional wellbeing at school. Teachers and staff promoted positive, respectful interactions to encourage a sense of belonging in a positive learning community. Teachers implemented research based restorative practices in their class meetings to foster respectful relationships, agreements, routines and student-centered problem solving.

We continued to monitor daily attendance and encourage students and families to regularly attend school. Students were recognized for their attendance efforts. Research confirms that regular school attendance directly affects long term student success.

We celebrated strong community partnerships alongside our Family Engagement Team, which sponsors monthly Family Fun Nights to promote family connections. Families enjoyed community potlucks, literacy and math celebrations, and Family Fitness Night.

Students participated in a different format of academic support through online continuous distance learning with the help of their teachers and staff. All did a great job adjusting and learning in a very new way.

The Highline Schools Foundation sponsored Beverly Park with shoe donations in every size and color through their Kicks for Kids program and family support during Covid19 for those in need. 

We will continue to focus on grade-level and team collaboration to identify the high impact influences and practices that enhance learning for every student in every classroom.

We will focus and prioritize Essential Learning Standards – the skills, knowledge and dispositions that every student must acquire to engage in deeper more rigorous ways of thinking and learning.

We are embarking on a new partnership with TAF (Technology Access Foundation) to learn and implement Project Based Learning as a process for students to research and study and solve real-world problems integrating reading, writing, mathematics, science, speaking and listening.  

We will continue to use technology and digital media strategically and capably to make teaching and learning more effective.

Students will read to learn about the global world around them and for the sheer joy of enjoying and discussing stories.

We will continue to focus on the arts and physical activity, connecting students with their own culture and 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.

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 of all humanity.