Monaview Elementary
Report Card Narrative
Monaview Elementary School is helping all students develop world class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the Graduate by providing a high quality, safe, respectful environment where students are eager to participate and learn. Our mission at Monaview is to empower each student with the foundation needed to grow educationally and socially. The staff at Monaview embody this mission daily by promoting high achievement through rigorous standards and relevant content that encourage engagement, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. Our teachers are committed to ongoing professional development in which they immerse themselves in the study of effective strategies and best practices that are, in turn, implemented in their classrooms. Areas of professional development include four major areas: reading, math, writing and technology. In the area of reading, teachers participate in two different studies including Jennifer Serravallo’s work in The Literacy Teacher’s Playbook and The Reading Strategies Book, as well as Jan Richardson’s work in The Next Steps in Guided Reading. Each of these studies allows teachers to understand how to assess students’ needs and provide the best instruction to meet those needs. In the area of math, teachers participate in two studies including Dr. Nicki Newton’s work in Guided Math in Action and Sherry Parrish’s work in Number Talks. As with reading, both of these math studies provide teachers with professional development in learning to assess students’ needs in math and provide high quality instruction that meets the needs of individual students. In writing, teachers participate in professional development based on the work of Lucy Calkins and the Units of Study in Writing. This professional development has worked to provide a school-wide, uniform writing program that helps students progress in writing from Kindergarten through 5th grade, using the same framework and common writing language. Another professional development that is vital to Monaview is the area of technology. Monaview is a 1:1 school including iPads for every Kindergartner through Second grader and laptops for all students in grades 3-5. Teachers and staff have participated in very strategic professional development sessions in which they’ve learned to use this technology as “personal learning devices.” Students use this technology to extend their learning in meaningful ways. Other programs that are implemented at Monaview that help students develop educationally and socially are programs such as: PBIS, intervention in the areas of reading and math, data notebooking, Good News Club, Community Readers, Greenville Mentors, Donors Choose, Public Education Partners, character and career education through our guidance counseling program, Achieve 3000, RAZ Kids, Reading A to Z, Junior Achievement, Roaring Writers, and Terrific Kids. We also offer a variety of extracurricular activities that students can participate in including: Safety Patrol, Girls on the Run, Monaview Pacers, Chorus, MMI afterschool program, Battle of the Books, Student Council, and our live news show. Students at Monaview have three school-wide expectations that are followed at all times: respect yourself, respect others, and respect the environment. As part of our Positive Behavior Intervention System, we provide continuous modeling of how to exhibit these expectations in every area of the school through praise of students who display these actions, video clips on the news show, and various expectations coaching sessions throughout the year. Students who follow and promote the expectations are rewarded with Pride Paws that can be used at our school store or saved and used to attend quarterly celebrations and Teacher Time activates. Monaview Elementary is a place where all faculty and staff believe that all students can learn and our staff is committed to providing the type of environment necessary to ensure they can meet that expectation. By doing so, we believe that we are creating a brighter future for South Carolina by developing South Carolina graduates and future leaders.