Mountain View celebrates 30th year; principal highlights intervention block and arts offerings
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Mountain View staff and students presented a program and the school representative told the board the school is expanding an intervention block that previously raised kindergarten literacy benchmarks from 28% to 76%. The school also revived a strings program and added a second pre-K class.
Mountain View Elementary marked its 30th year and presented a short program at the Johnson City Board of Education meeting. A Mountain View school representative described instructional and extracurricular highlights and results from a pilot intervention block.
The school representative said Mountain View added a second pre-K class and revived a strings program; about 20 fourth-graders receive weekly strings instruction. She said the school continues to focus on “academics, attendance and attitude” and has implemented a professional learning community model.
The representative described an intervention block introduced in kindergarten that allowed each student to receive either intervention or extension targeted to essential standards while still attending related arts. She reported literacy results from the kindergarten pilot: literacy scores rose from 28% at or above benchmark at the start of the year to 76% by the end, and the percentage of kindergarten students who could read nonsense words rose from 7% to 77% after the pilot.
The school thanked community partners — including Niswonger’s Project on Track, Westmark/Chick-fil-A, Grace Fellowship, Rotary Club, Coalition for Kids, Rise Up, Carver Rec, the Boys & Girls Club and Memorial Park — for supporting tutoring, reading initiatives and after-school programs.
Ending: The board and audience were invited to visit Mountain View to see programs and a school art display honoring the jungle-themed presentation.