BRIGHT MINDS LEARNING CENTER
Impacting all lives through distance learning.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of New Liberty and Praise community Services is to provide a diverse and equitable learning environment that implements high quality culturally responsive interventions that target skills that will allow students to develop holistically, thus becoming productive, responsible, ethical, creative, and compassionate leaders of society.
OUR VISION STATEMENT
It is the vision of New Liberty and Praise Community Services to align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to provide all students with comprehensive content knowledge through the use of evidence-based strategies, scientific inquiry, “real world” connections and the infusion of advanced technology, subsequently enabling our students to become critical thinkers, proficient writers, and master all fundamental and higher-order skills to become career and college ready.
IMPACTING ALL LIVES THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING
Educators
Students will be paired with educators who have a vast array of knowledge and experience in culturally responsive pedagogy and differentiation. Educators will provide high-quality instruction to students to support them with engaging, relevant, and differentiated instruction that meet the needs of all learners.
Parents
New Liberty and Praise Community Services will provide parents with the tools, strategies, resources and support needed to ensure that their child receives accessibility, equitable opportunities, and educational needs to maximize their learning experience.
Students
New Liberty and Praise Community Services will provide high quality, culturally relevant, and diverse learning experiences to educate all children both academically and socially, to equip them in becoming productive, responsible, ethical creative, and compassionate leaders of society.
School Districts
New Liberty and Praise Community Services will provide online intervention support aligned with the Common Core State Standards and the states curriculum, to help students who are at risk or below grade level. These interventions will provide students with unique learning opportunities, through scaffolding and hands-on activities that will develop their reading and comprehension skills, ultimately producing successful and independent learners.
partnership
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LPCS would like to partner along with the ESSA & Title 1 Department to provide supplemental resources to diverse schools to contribute to preparing students for college and career readiness.
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LPCS will monitor the effectiveness of the virtual tutoring program focusing on improving students’ academic achievement and eliminating the achievement gap.
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LPCS will provide supporting activities to increase parent, family, and community engagement in order to bridge the gap between home, school, and community.
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LPCS has partnered with a elementary school in a large urban School District in the state of Maryland. The general education population has 533 students from Pre-K to fifth grade and 37 students in the Special Education Regional Program. Over 64 are ESOL students and 47 are Special Education students that are also in general education classes. The school has a high mobility rate of 40.00% in 2018, 53.7% in 2019 and 34.9% for 2020. These transition rates have tremendously affected student performance for the past 3 years.
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The school has been identified as a Schoolwide Title 1Program. As a result of the added Title 1 funding's. The school has chosen to target it’s most needy students who are struggling in Reading and Math. Based on bassline data from iReady the targeted grades are 1-2 Reading and 3-5 Math. Data results determined that students in these grades were most neediest for academic support.
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A core team, which is composed of the following; administrators, department chairpersons, grade level chairpersons, and specialists met, collected and organized data for the past two years to determine the school’s needs. Qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed, implications were made and next steps were designed to maintain strengths, address weaknesses and identify the next steps based on the data.
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The team looked at trended data when available in reading and math. Attendance and suspension data was considered as well as different forms of qualitative data to help determine school reform strategies, professional development needs, parent engagement needs and potential activities.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
•The following testing data have been included in the data overview:
•KRA (Kindergarten Readiness Assessment)
•DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) K-2
•MAP R (Measures of Academic Progress)
•PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career) - ELA and Math
•SMI (Scholastic Math Inventory)
•ACCESS for ELLs (Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State-to- State for English Language Learners)
•iReady Reading Data (Distance Learning)
Math and Reading Data (Distance Learning)
VIRTUAL TUTORING PROGRAM
Our 2020 - 2021 Schoolwide Title I Program will service grades 1- 5 grade students who scored between 8 and 10 in Reading on the Weighing and Ranking sheets. The Title I Reading Resource Teacher will keep track of their attendance and academic performance. Students who have been retained or considered for retention were also considered when selecting targeted students. Students may be signed out of the program with parental notification or upon the request of the principal or recommendation of the Title I Resource Teacher. Students will remain in the program all year unless they meet the exit criteria for the program.
All Grade K, Grade 1 and Grade 2 classroom teachers collected Reading data for each student using the rubric below. This data was used in order to identify student needs and services for the Title I Program. Each teacher was given the Multi-Criteria Rubric for Reading. The scores are then weighted on a point scale to determine eligibility for receiving services funded by the Title I Program. It was determined that the academically needy students will be those students whose combined scores were between 8 and 10 on the Student Ranking & Eligibility Form in Reading. The following chart shows the Multi-criteria used for each grade level.
For Math the school has chosen to initially service 3rd-5th learners. The students, whom were selected to receive extra services, were chosen by being weighed and ranked on (2) criteria. Each student received a number between 1 and 5 for each criteria (depending on where they fell within the selected criterion). The 2 numbers received based on the 2 criteria were then added together. Students who received a combined score between ____8__and ___10____, were those identified to be most academically needed and will be the students receiving Title 1 Math services by our Math Resource.
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The school has launched a Reading Club this School Year. Selected 1st and 2nd grade students will be the members of the Reading Club. It will be held every Tuesday from 2:45-3:45. During this time, students receive additional instruction on topics that were taught and teachers will use the platform CORE CLICKS for additional support.
CORE CLICKS is a digital nonfiction reading program specifically designed to build the close-reading skills required by the Common core and other higher academic standards.
The school has launched a Math Club this School Year. Selected 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students will be members of the Math Club. It will be held ever Thursday from 2:45- 3:45. During this time, students receive additional instruction on topics that were taught and teachers will use the interactive platforms to engage student learning such as:
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•Quizzes (Google Form, Kahoot, Formative Checkpoint)
•Fact Fluency
•Math Interventions (POSSIBLE)
•Prodigy
•First in Math
•Splash Learn
•Xtra Math
•Khan Academy
•Freckle
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Math Club will be facilitated the Title 1 Math Resource Teacher and team, on Thursdays from 2:15-3:00 pm for students in grades 3, 4, and 5. Students will participate in math enrichment learning activities that will engage them in grade level content and standards through Breakout EDU.
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Breakout EDU is an immersive learning games platform. Breakout EDU games consist of a combination of physical and digital puzzle elements that must be solved in a set amount of time. Breakout EDU uses critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.