Kyrene de la Paloma Program Design

All approved Kyrene Supplemental materials are able to be used. This includes the use of Spalding Education Materials and Curriculum.

Any strategy in which a teacher has been trained to use, that supports the Kyrene Promise and the Portrait of a Kyrene Kid. For example: Kennedy Center Arts Instruction, Spalding Education, Kagan, and others.

No. Parents and staff from both communities emphatically stated the need for a united school campus. Survey data show requiring uniforms would be divisive, not uniting.

There will likely not be a nightly homework expectation, but we will work together with teachers to develop a homework policy that is clearly communicated prior to the start of the school year.

In the spring around the beginning of April, parents at both sites (Paloma and KTA) will have the opportunity to fill out an environmental input or learning profile form, highlighting their child's learning style, academic strengths, social-emotional needs, and ideal classroom environment.  This is a practice in all Kyrene schools and will be used in the process of assigning homeroom teachers.

For 4^th and 5^th grades, our classes are departmentalized meaning 1-2 teachers teach a specific subject area for the day and students rotate through teachers, so, it is possible that a 4th or 5th grade student could be working with three to four classroom teachers next year. 

As we come together as one community next year, students have input into logos, mascot, colors, as well as instructional and programmatic components that they find relevant.

There are two phases - The first year, we'll be looking for community input on a lot of things, such as the mascot and school colors. Are we going to be making any changes to those things? Their community voice will be very prevalent in that first year.  Additionally, as part of our 90-day plan and annual school site improvement plan processes, we are required to have a group with community representation be involved. That will be ongoing throughout the future and is already present at both KTA and Paloma.  Even currently, as we look at what we're doing, we engage our PTA, PTO, and site councils in this process and have those conversations.

This is the plan based on where we are right now. The core design plan pieces are based on what data shows us is working right now. But when these two communities come together, if our data and our 90-day plan process show something isn't working, then we will adjust, just like we always do.

It's very similar to what we see at most of our Kyrene elementary schools. Its primary use is the differentiation tool for ELA and math on Amplify and iReady. It's also used more for instruction in the older grades, fourth and fifth, using Google Classroom. It's used at appropriate times within the day.