Instructional Focus

P.S. 99's Priority Focus 2024-2025

The priority focus is to enhance the reading proficiency of all students, ensuring they achieve or exceed grade-level expectations by the end of the school year.

Priority Focus Action Steps:

• Data Driven Instruction

• Targeted Interventions

• Professional Development in Literacy

• Parental Involvement - Lexia and Daily Reading Assignments

• Literacy Rich Environment

• Progress Monitoring

• Team Effort Approach

• DEAR time before dismissal

• Mindset focus on Literacy, Enrichment & AIS

School Instructional Focus

The instructional focus is to build teacher capacity utilizing Hallmark #2 of Advanced Literacies Instruction. 

Classroom discussion across all grades, which will enable all students to actively participate in classroom discussions, utilizing ENL protocols, "Think, Jot, Pair, Share," "Two Cents Protocol," and "Echo, Explain, Elaborate."