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Mission Statement |
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The Washoe County School District provides each student the opportunity to achieve his or her potential through a superior education in a safe and challenging environment in order to develop responsible and productive citizens for our diverse and rapidly changing community. |
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Hidden Valley Elementary School strives for academic excellence through collaboration and a shared vision of student success. Learning is a joint effort between students, teachers and parents.- PTA purchased an ACTIVboard , projector and laptop computer to outfit an additional classroom, bringing our total to seven.
- Deaf Ed teacher, Amy Prehm received a grant to install two ACTIVboards in our Total Communication classrooms in 2009-2010.
- We continued to fund a reading intervention teacher through the State Innovation and Prevention of Remediation grant.
- Fourth graders, Max Barainca and Sean Henderson, won third place at the science fair for, “What Battery Has the Best Value?”
- Kindergartener, Sarah Bingham, received honorable mention at the Regional Science Fair for, “Do Sunflowers Need the Sun?”
- Our Strategies classes implemented the STAR framework for teaching academics, language and behavior to students with Autism.
- The “Run for Education” grant was used to build a new indoor lateral climbing wall to provide fun student fitness activities.
- Kindergartener, Areli Valentin was chosen for the KRNV News 4 “Class Act Award” given to students who “Go the Extra Mile.”
- Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Liz O’Neal was chosen as the KRNV News 4 “Excellence in Education” award winner for January 2009.
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Goals and Objectives |
Goal 1
Increase the literacy skills of all students in the areas of word recognition and attack, fluency and comprehension.
Objective(s):
Using data from benchmark assessments to monitor student progress, the school will decrease the number of non-proficient and below grade level students in English/Language Arts by 10% as measured by scores on the 2009 State CRTs in grades 3-6 and regularly administered informal reading inventories.
Goal 2
Increase the math skills of all students in the areas of basic facts, computation and problem solving.
Objective(s):
Using data from benchmark assessments to monitor student progress, the school will decrease the number of non-proficient and below grade level students in Math by 10% as measured by scores on the 2009 State CRTs in grades 3-6 and regularly administered teacher assessments.
Goal 3
Increase the writing skills of all students in the four traits of conventions, ideas, voice and organization.
Objective(s):
The school will decrease the number of non-proficient students in writing by 10% as measured by the January 2009 5th grade Analytic Writing Test.
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