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John C. Clark Elementary & Middle School serves children from Pre-K through Grade 6. It promotes a positive learning environment by providing numerous literacy and numeracy initiatives, student recognition and family involvement programs for its students and parents.
Pedagogical Practices
- Standards-based lesson planning & IEP development
- Common planning times
- Monthly Student Academic Reviews
- Job Embedded professional development
- Data/Student portfolios
- Use of instructional rubrics
Literacy & Numeracy Initiatives
- Haskins
- Empowering Writers
- Structured Read Aloud Process
- Book Voyagers Literature Circle
- Family Literacy/Numeracy Workshops
- Skeleton Bee: Not Too Qute to Spell
- Students Academic Review Process (STARplus)
- CREATE DRP Scholars Method
- “Beee” a fluent Reader
- First in Math online technology
- Math Jeopardy Game Show: Not Too Qute to Compute
Staff and Student Recognition Programs
- A Will to Excellence Awards- CMT (Mayoral Citation)
- Crystal Apple Teacher Awards – DRA
- CMT Awards Banquet
- Certificates of Proficiency (Quarterly Formative Assessments)
Family Programming
- Male/Female Symposium
- Read to Achieve Literacy Workshops
- Family Libraries
- Motheread/Fatheread
- Clark CARES Carnival
- Literacy/Numeracy Game-Nights
Honors & Recognition
- 2008 – Rank 2nd in the top 100 schools in the State of CT (3/31/08) First in the Online Technology Program
- 2007 Connecticut Association of Schools Recognition - -STARplus
- 2007 Research article submitted to Education Leadership: From Research to Practice: Using Informative Assessment to Drive Instruction
- 2007 – Rating of “Good” in every area assessed on the Cambridge Report
- 2007 City-wide Science Fair Winners in 1st Grade (2nd place) & 2nd grade (1st place)
- 2007 – 17% increase in 3rd grade students reading at goal on the 2007 CMT
- 2007 – Hosted the Press Conference for Emeka Okafor
- 2006 – Partnership in CAS Award
Community & Business Partners
- CT State Department of Education
- Clark Family Resource Center
- Catholic Family Workers
- Connecticut Humanities Council
- University of Connecticut
- University of Hartford
- Manchester Community College
- Squadron Line Elementary School
- The Masters School
- Salvation Army
- WQTQ– 89.9 FM
- Building Positive Self-Images
- Scitico Market
- Mega Education
- Allen Chapel
- Horace Mann
School Leadership Team
- Dr. Beryl Irene Bailey, Principal
- Melissa D’Alessandro, Assistant Principal
- Tayarisha Stone, Curriculum Specialist
- Michael Conner, Curriculum Specialist
- Beverly Resto, Special Education
- Carleen Bell, Special Education Monitor
- Sheila Gaillard, School Psychologist
- Rose Thornton, Social Worker
- Barbara Jones, CSI
- Mary Murchison, FRA
School Videos
(March 6, 2008) John C. Clark, Jr. Elementary School “Math Jeopardy” CMT Challenge (Video 1 Hour 17 mins.)
(October 31, 2007) The John C. Clark, Jr. Elementary and Middle School Academy’s 2nd Annual Skeleton Bee (Video 1 Hour)
(September 27, 2007) Husky Sport Gift Announcement held at JC Clark Elementary School (Video 46 minutes)
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