Our BAMO teachers are going strong with learning and implementing new strategies aligned to the Science of Reading. As an APS Pilot School under the Literacy and Justice for All Initiative, our teachers are becoming models for others across the district using research-based practices to improve literacy achievement. You will see here where our teachers are engaged in deep professional learning using new phonics tools to support early literacy.

As our state rolls out new math standards and APS, a new math curricular resource, BAMO is pumped up and eager to support our teachers and students in learning and implementing new standards, so much so that we held an I LOVE MATH DAY on 2/14! This is an annual event for our school supported by a grant from Redefined, a local nonprofit, aimed at supporting family engagement and advocacy for improving academic achievement. Parents were invited to attend and engage in hands-on learning tasks geared towards becoming more familiar with conceptual mathematics thinking. What a fun day which was packed with parents!

School attendance matters and so does reporting to school on time. Tardiness can have a negative impact on a great start to an awesome day of learning, therefore our attendance team decided to motivate students to come to school on time for the last week prior to Winter Break. Students with perfect attendance and no tardies for the week engaged in a “No Tardi-Gras” Parade! We had a blast and teachers reported back that it made an enormous difference in a smoother start of the day. Attendance and coming to school on time are the ingredients for a successful day of teaching and learning.