Welcome to the start of an amazing school year! I am excited to be starting my third year as the Principal at BESTer. This year we will have three assistant principals at Bester. Ms. Sasse and Mrs. Roth who will be returning, and Mr. Orth who will be joining the team.
This year we will be focused on increasing student engagement and achievement through building a culture of hard work, high expectations, and by providing daily educational opportunities for students to grow and learn. This will be achieved as we also focus on creating a positive school climate partnered with our PBIS initiatives.
We are excited to announce that we will be utilizing a new core reading resource called CKLA that promises to excite and engage students in literacy through its rich use of high quality literature and content reading, its focus on writing and vocabulary development, and its specific and targeted skill-building in the primary grades.
We will also be working on modeling and reasoning in math as we enter year three with our core math resource, Illustrative Math (Bridges in Pre-K). Our students will be working on showing and explaining their math thinking and solution paths.
