Essential Learning

What is it we want our students to learn?

This question is foundational to our collaborative work as educators and a school community.  Our fundamental purpose as a school is to ensure that all students learn at high levels.  At East Prairie we strive to achieve this within an environment that is nurturing, caring, and inclusive.  

Ensuring clarity on what ALL students will learn (not just what we will teach) is critical for ensuring the growth and achievement of every child.  As such, essential standards are the standards we as a school community are ensuring ALL students will know and be able to do at the end of the year.

Here is a link to East Prairie’s essential standards for math and reading, preschool through eighth grade.  In this document you will find the most important learning at each grade level highlighted and broken down into family friendly language - “I Can” statements.  Please note this is an ongoing work in progress and will continue to be updated with time.  Additional content areas and courses will be mapped out over time as well.  

We recognize, appreciate, and value your incredible partnership on this shared journey of educating your child - we want to make sure that you have every resource and piece of information available to help support you along the way.  Please reach out to your child’s teacher or any member of our team with any questions at any point in time. 

Our return to in-person learning!

Welcoming our youngest panthers back to school for in-person learning was the perfect way to kick off the week.  

"I forgot how beautiful our school is" quoted one of our returning first graders.

It was uplifting and inspiring to see students in class engaged in learning with their outstanding teachers and classmates. #pantherpride  

EPS Reentry Video

Here is a video highlighting our safety procedures and protocols as we transition to in-person learning for our youngest panthers.

Again, we want to make sure our entire school community is aware and understands the processes and procedures in place to ensure the health and safety of our kids, staff, families, and broader community.  Both in and outside of school our individual actions have a collective impact on our closely connected EPS community.  Thank you for taking the steps that lead to a vibrant, thriving, and healthy East Prairie School!

Panther Pics

 

Sneak peek on some behind the scenes panther pics.  Reentry video for PreK/K/1 families coming soon...  

A Video Message for Families

Here is Dr. Goldberg's community message as we work to safely bring our students back for in-person schooling, beginning with our youngest. Consistent with our intentions throughout the summer and beginning of the year, we know our students learn best in-person alongside (safely, and 6 feet away) our outstanding staff.  As we have shared throughout this process we will begin by bringing our youngest students back in a sensible and measured manner.  The health and safety of students, staff, families, and our community continues to, and will always, be our highest priority.  Our ongoing goal is to provide families with a choice for the instructional model that best fits the needs of their child and family.

Curriculum Nights

Thank you for the tremendous turnout and show of support during our three Curriculum Nights! 

To reiterate the message of every team, we are committed to ensuring this year is special, meaningful, and impactful for your child; thank you for partnering with us to undertake this endeavor together!

Our youngest panthers are thriving!

Wanting to ensure as impactful and typical an early learning experience as possible, our preschool and kindergarten teams have worked hard to create small group in-person educational opportunities, while also supporting at home learning. 

Being mindful of screen time and the importance of peer interactions the team has structured activities that prioritize social-emotional development, essential learning for literacy and math, as well as, exposure to fine arts. 

 

Thank you to our teachers and families for working together to offer the very best opportunities to our kiddos.  Our youngest panthers are rocking their opening weeks!