One Purpose. Your Pathway. Our Promise.
Dear Lewiston-Porter Primary Education Center Families,
Our faculty is looking forward to meeting with each parent/guardian this month to discuss the progress that your child has made during the first trimester of the 2024-2025 school year. December 13th has been designated as a full day for these important conversations. This year you may conference with teachers in three ways: in person, virtual or via phone. Although you may set up conferences throughout the school year, we strongly encourage a meeting this month to dialogue about your child’s strengths and opportunities for growth.
We will be sending your child’s report card home on December 11th. The purpose of the PEC Report Card is to provide current feedback to parents regarding the progress their child is making toward specific learning standards and skills at their grade level. Our report card is designed to deliver student assessment data based on what they are currently learning at this point in the year and where they are in relation to the current expectations. In other words, a child who is performing proficiently with the work that is currently assigned should score a 3 even though the child is not yet demonstrating the end of year expectations (which they haven’t been taught yet). If the child is showing proficiency with skills/knowledge that has not been taught yet, then the child can earn a 4. In general, a child who requires teacher support to be successful with grade level work earns a 2. A child who, even with teacher support, is unable to do grade level work earns a 1. Our job is to assess students on their current progress on what they are currently learning.
Our current approach to grading allows parents and students to understand more clearly what is expected of students now and for parents to receive timely information on how they can help their child be successful in every aspect of our program. A report card action team (including parents, teachers and administrators) surveyed the PEC parents in the spring of 2019 to assess their current needs in how we report their child’s progress. We learned four important needs of our parent stakeholder group.
Parents want an academic achievement key that indicates how their child is progressing towards expected standards at the conclusion of each trimester.
Parents want a decrease in the number of Standards/Skills that are reported for their child.
Parents place a high value on teacher comments.
Parents place a high value on the habits of a successful learner.
These priorities were embedded into the fabric of our report card design and assessment process. We have created a parent guide to support you when reviewing your child’s progress: PEC Report Card Parent Guide
Thank you for your continued support of our program. We appreciate your continuous feedback. Please check out our Winter Spirit Days on the December calendar and help us spread some cheer this holiday season. Happy Holidays & may the New Year bring happiness and good health to all!
Respectfully yours,
Mrs. Tamara Larson
Principal, Primary Education Center
Celebrating World Kindness Day!
November 13th was WORLD KINDNESS DAY! Mrs. Gawrys' kindergarten class teamed up with Ms. Jasek's second grade class to read stories about kindness & work on some fun kindness / team-building activities! This is a monthly classroom collaboration this school year. Ms. Jasek's 2nd grade leaders have also helped our kindergarten students work on their iPads- learning how to use both the Seesaw and Epic Reading apps independently. Thank you, 2nd grade!
This year's picture book author for this project was Minh Le
Minh Lê is the award-winning author of picture books including Drawn Together (winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature), The Blur, Real to Me, and the Eisner-nominated Lift, and graphic novels such as Green Lantern: Legacy and Enlighten Me. In addition to writing books, he is on the faculty of the Hamline MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, serves on the board of We Need Diverse Books, and has been a contributor to a variety of national publications, including NPR, HuffPost, and the New York Times.
Our PEC students read the books and learned Minh’s secrets for each book. They shared their thoughts on the books with students from around the country and from around the world. We are in the process of hearing back from everyone and have their letters and postcards displayed and mapped out. It is exciting to create these global connections!
Mobile Hot Spot
Dear Families:
At Lewiston-Porter we have made a strong effort to ensure that all students have equitable access to digital materials while they're at school and while they're at home. To that end, we have partnered with T-Mobile to offer free mobile hotspots to families that are in need.
If you would like to request a hotspot please complete the form below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft9K1RiDe21tZ6OZP--y8uaIGuTKJG-a9MuZaHxlUjJR3r5Q/viewform
