Embracing high standards
Administrators and teachers at Rose Park establish
very high learning expectations for their students.
Regardless of their starting point, all students are
expected to make academic progress: there is room
to grow for every child. The school’s emphasis on
clear expectations, academic support, and engaging activities for families all help foster students’
academic success.
Interventions. “Rose Park provides intervention
programs and opportunities that improve academic
development and performance for students at varying ability levels. These intervention programs work
to help students at all ability levels. The school’s
interventions occur on a daily and weekly basis.
Daily initiatives include Rose Park’s Intervention, a
one-hour program that groups students by math
and language arts ability levels. Teacher-supervised
grade-level teams work closely with students to
Rose Park Math and
Science Magnet
Middle School has
taken the concept of
family support to a
address individual learning challenges and new
material that has been or will be presented in class.
Fluid grouping permits students to move quickly
into a more advanced group once they have mastered specific content.
Students requiring remediation are placed in smaller classes, usually with a 15:1 student-to-teacher
ratio. Rose Park also provides extra support for
struggling students with before- and after-school
tutoring programs. During that time, students work
within their educational families, which include a
teacher other than the regular classroom teacher
and students at the same ability level. This program
differs from other programs at Rose Park because it
places a high priority on teachers’ creativity in their
instructional approaches, such as interactive and
hands-on activities.
High performing students work in larger groups of
approximately 30 other accelerated students during
which they work independently on upper-level
academic material. Teachers challenge students
who have mastered grade-level learning objectives
to learn advanced material quickly, and encourage
these students to take advanced courses in math
and science and earn high school credit.
Video: “From Data to
Action” (2:47)
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“Intervention Plan of Action”
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new level, creating
an environment in
which every student
feels nurtured
as part of an
“educational family.”
Home interventions and family connections. Rose
Park has built an extraordinary array of outreach
initiativ