P.S. 108K Placemat

The vision of PS 108K is to collaboratively educate each child intellectually, physically, emotionally, and socially, with families as our partners, through high-quality learning opportunities so they graduate with the skills needed to reach their full potential as they develop into our future leaders.

P.S.108K's school community is committed to educating each child by embedding 21st century learning through a growth mindset, providing a cognitively challenging learning environment so our students are college and career ready. We will accomplish this collaboratively with all stakeholders by utilizing data-driven, shared goals to impact each student to ensure equity and wellness for all.

PS 108K is committed to educational equity where each student will have what they need to succeed, make improvements, believe in themselves, be motivated, feel valued for their diversity and appreciate the diversity in others.

Our literacy vision at PS 108K is to create a community of lifelong literate learners who possess a joy for reading, writing, listening, and speaking confidently. We believe that literacy is at the heart of all learning and is fundamental to each student's success.

At PS 108K, we strive to build mathematically proficient students who will cultivate a passion for mathematics while building their conceptual knowledge to persevere and apply mathematical concepts to real-world problems that enables them to think critically and and justify their thinking mathematically.

How can we intentionally build teacher capacity to plan culturally relevant practices & curriculum to design a learner-centered environment that promotes student ownership, the transfer of foundational skills (in grades K–2), and synthesis of complex ideas (in grades 3–5) through 

           (1) high-level, standards-aligned tasks, 

           (2) scaffolded and differentiated

instruction, and 

           (3) gradually phasing out supports over 

                time, 

so that students engage in deeper thinking and discussion to demonstrate independence in all subject areas on their path to becoming our future leaders?

Students will engage in peer discussions based on success criteria or rubrics to provide feedback, extend, justify, and elaborate their thinking which will lead to ownership of their learning and improved student work.