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Redwood Shores principal highlights multilingual student growth, targeted interventions
Summary
Redwood Shores Elementary principal summarized the school's year, citing multilingual enrollment, targeted interventions that produced measurable reading gains for some students, and plans to increase student academic discourse next year.
Redwood Shores Elementary School's principal presented a year-end school spotlight to the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District Board of Trustees, calling attention to student growth, the school's multilingual population and targeted interventions that staff say have produced measurable gains for some students.
The principal said the school is home to at least 28 languages and that 38 percent of students are multilingual, with 14 percent currently classified as English learners. "All our RSES students will increase academic achievement in communication, math reasoning and English language arts listening as measured by classroom and state assessments," the principal said, describing an academic goal that emphasizes structured academic discourse.
Why it matters: Trustees asked about academic supports and social-emotional services at Redwood Shores during the board meeting. The principal described how…
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