Academics
Stringfellow Elementary strives to provide a quality curriculum based on research and best practices that focus on the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards. The Georgia Standards of Excellence instructional standards provide a strong educational foundation that helps our students become successful and engaged 21st century learners.
The Stringfellow faculty and staff recognize that our students are unique individuals. It is our goal to provide a positive school environment that will meet the educational, social, emotional, and physical needs of each Stringfellow student. With hard work, devotion, and cooperation among faculty, staff, students, parents, and the community, we will work together to ensure the success of all children in our school.
Colquitt County School District Curriculum Information
Stringfellow Elementary's Academic Coach Talyor Baggett is available to answer any academic questions that you may have.
email: taylor.baggett@colquitt.k12.ga.us
MAP Growth Asessment:
The MAP Growth Assessments provides a measure of academic progress for Reading, Math, and Science. These assessments measure achievement and growth, inform instruction, and assess strategy. Students are administered these assessments three times a year. Kindergarten through 2nd grade students take the Reading and Math MAP Growth Assessments. Students in grade 3-5 take the MAP Growth Assessment for Reading,Math, and Science. These assessments provide our teachers with the data they need to make a difference in student progress.
Be sure to check out A family guide to MAP Growth | Nwea
Family Guide to MAP Growth
Dibels Assessment:
Dibels is used with Tier ll and Tier lll students to progress monitor reading fluency
Georgia Milestones:
Information about the Gerogia Milestones can be found on the link below.
https://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Assessment/Pages/Georgia-Milestones-Assessment-System.aspx
Scholar Bee: Every quarter students meeting grade level standards for a particular activity are selected from each grade level to have their work showcased in special shadow box located in the main hallway. This area is set up as our Scholar Bees. Teachers will provide graded work with rubric, standard, and and a short description of the student at the end of each 4.5 weeks grading period.
Stinger Bee: Stringfellow Elementary recognizes students weekly and monthly for following school expectations. Students who exhibit respectful, responsible, and safe behavior can be chosen. One student is chosen to represent their grade as Stinger Bee of the Week. These students have gone above and beyond when following school expectations for the week. Each month, one student is chosen to represent their classroom as Stinger Bee of the Month. These students have displayed respectful, responsible, and safe behavior for the entire month. Students are rewarded by having their name announced on the announcements. Students also receive a Golden Bee Buck to use toward the PBIS store or PBIS events.
Accelerated Reading: Accelerated Reader is a computer program that helps teachers and librarians manage and monitor children’s independent reading practice. Your child picks a book at his own level and reads it at his own pace. When finished, your child takes a short quiz on the computer. (Passing the quiz is an indication that your child understood what was read.) Accelerated Reader gives children, teachers, and librarians feedback based on the quiz results, which the teacher then uses to help your child set goals and direct ongoing reading practice.Teachers and librarians help your child choose books at an appropriate readability level that are challenging without being frustrating, ensuring that your child can pass the quiz and experience success.
Curriculum Resources:
myView Literacy for English Language Arts
STEMScopes Science
Gallopade Social Studies
SuccessMaker Reading and Math adaptive learning program
ESOL: The “English to Speakers of Other Languages” (ESOL) is a program for students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds who are English Language Learners (ELLs). The goal of the program is for English learner students to increase both English language proficiency and academic language proficiency in content-area classrooms. ESOL teachers work closely with content-area classroom teachers to provide the support for our ELL students to be successful. Students are identified for the ESOL program through a screener developed for different grade levels. After qualifying for ESOL, students are administered an assessment (ACCESS Test) each February to determine their proficiency. As a student becomes increasingly proficient in the English language as well as academic language proficiency, less support is needed. A student may exit the program when he/she has demonstrated a proficiency level that will allow the student to be successful with little to no support with the English language.
Intervention Programs:
Language for Learning - K & 1 Intervention
Reading Horizons for K-2 Interventions
Read 180 for 3-5 Interventions
PBIS: (Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies) PBIS is the Positive intervention system in which our school abides by. We have three expectations in which the students become familiar with their in daily routines. They are BEE Respectful, BEE Responsible, and BEE Safe. The students make these expectations a part of their daily routine. If they are complimented or caught meeting the expectations, they receive Bee Bucks in which they can spend for the monthly PBIS events and for classroom incentives.
School begins at 7:40am. If your student arrives after 7:40am, you must sign them in at the
front office. When they are tardy, they are missing instruction and disrupting the classroom.
Attendance-Attendance is IMPORTANT! Each school strives to have at 100% attendance each day of school. However, in order to have that we will have to OUR Stingerbees present each day. If for some reason, a student is absent an excuse is REQUIRED to come to school with them when they return to school.
Protocol:
Attendance Policy & Procedures
A student who is absent from school must bring a written note from their parent or guardian stating the reason for their absence. Parents may write up to three (3) excuse notes. Doctor's excuses will be required after the third handwritten parent excuse note. Students are required to provide written documentation (parent excuse note/doctor excuse note) within three (3) days of their return. Failure to do so will result in the absence remaining unexcused. Excessive or extended absences due to illness must be justified by a physician's statement.
New Attendance Policy Reminder
Beginning 2 nd Semester (January 2025), parents may write 3 excuse notes, stating the reason for
the absence with in 3 days of the student’s return. Failure to do so will result in the absence
remaining unexcused.
Doctor’s excuses will be required after the 3 rd parent note has been submitted.
If a student becomes ill at school, the school nurse may determine that the student is too sick
to stay at school. This absence will be counted as a medically excused absence.
Three(3) unexcused absence-parent will be notified.
Five(5) unexcused absences- parent is contacted for an attendance meeting.
Seven(7) unexcused absences-Homevisit by School social worker
Nine(9) unexcused absences- Hearing required with School Officials, District Attorney and DFCS.
Twelve(12) unexcused absences-Legal action.
Attendance and arriving on time matters as we prepare for testing. When your student “just
doesn’t feel like coming to school”, please be mindful that a student usually feels better once
they are at school and in their regular routine. There are several support staff at Stringfellow
who will assist you if you are having difficulty with getting your student to come to school.
Colquitt County Board of Education Protocol for Attendance is as follows:
1. Three (3) unexcused absences - Parent contact.(phone call, email, letter, and/or Infinite Campus Messaging)
2. Five (5) unexcused absences - School based Conference.
3. Seven (7) unexcused absences - Homevisit
4. Nine (9) unexcused absences - Hearing with School Officials, District Attorney Representative, and Department of family and Children Services
5. Twelve (12) unexcused absences - Legal action.
Thank you for your cooperation and partnership with Colquitt County Schools and ensuring the best educational experience for your child.
Contacts:
New Social Services Director -2024/2025-Rondesha Williams-229-890-6200 ext10009
Stringfellow School Social Worker-Sabrina Graves, LMSW-229-890-6187 ext18038
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