Special Programs

Academics

• Reduced pupil-teacher ratio K-6
• Professional Learning Communities
• Young Scholars
• Gifted and Talented Program
• Special Education/Noncategorical Program
• Cluster 5 Enhanced Autism Program Site
• Title 1 Literacy & Math/School-Wide Model
• Title 1 Reading Recovery
• Waterford Programs/Kindergarten
• ESOL Program (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
• Responsive Classroom Approach – UVA Efficacy Study/Intervention School
• Teacher Research Network
• George Mason Professional Development School
• Morning Reading Buddies before school
• Team Curriculum Planning days  
• Everyday Counts Calendar Math Program K-6
• Destination Math technology 3-6
• Family Learning Nights for Math and Science

Essential Life Skills

• Responsive Classroom Approach – UVA Efficacy Study/Intervention School
• Teacher Assistant (TA) student program
• Peer Mediation
• Community tutors and mentors
• Parent Liaison

Responsibility to the Community

• ESOL Family Literacy Adult Learning
• Parent Liaison
• Parent Education Coffees
• Early Family Literacy Program
• School-Aged Child Care (SACC)
• Thursday After-School Activities/Clubs (4-6)
• Community tutors and mentors
• Community/Business Partnerships to include Kirkwood Presbyterian Church, INOVA Heathplex, Baja Fresh, and Versar, Inc.
• Teacher Assistant (TA) student program
• Richard Byrd Library Partnership
• Family Learning Nights for Math and Science
• FECEP Head Start