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   Glazier Elementary recently received news that our school has made the “California Business for Education Excellence” (CBEE) Honor Roll as a “Star” school.   Every year the CBEE identifies schools based on the results of the California Standards Test (CST).  One criterion for becoming a “Star” school is showing evidence of closing achievement gaps and increasing proficiency rates among a population of minority students.  Over the last four years, Glazier has exceeded annual state targets and has shown significant growth in increasing student achievement across all subgroups of students.   We are very proud of this prestigious honor and will continue to provide our best practices and standards-based instruction to our students. 

    Glazier has been implementing various interventions to assist with increasing student achievement.  Our Gladiators are participating in an intervention block called Response to Intervention (RtI), which is geared to target areas of need in reading.  During this time, students receive explicit, small group instruction in the building blocks of reading.   On-going progress monitoring is occurring daily and the flexible grouping allows for change of placement every ten weeks of formative assessment, instruction, and summative assessment.  Students in 4^th & 5^th grade are participating in math intervention through an on-line program called iPass.  Our students have been showing significant growth with this math intervention in place. 

   Our Gladiators have been immersed into the wonderful world of the arts.  Glazier’s “Arts for All” program provides opportunities for all of our students to participate in the Visual and Performing Arts.  Glazier provides Music Hall sessions to all of our students.  The Music Hall sessions implement curriculum that focuses on “Rhythm and Movement” in Pre K through 5^th grade classrooms.  Our teachers have also been trained to integrate “Rhythm and Movement” activities in their classrooms.  The Glazier “Beginning Strings” group recently performed at a concert where students played one of the following instruments: violin, viola, or cello. For the upcoming school year, we will be adding on several “Strings” classes that include an “Intermediate Strings” and a “Ukulele” class.  Choir and the recorder are some additional music classes that are being offered after school.  Glazier also has been chosen as a lab school for the Music in Education in National Consortium (MIENC). This partnership enables our staff to design, disseminate, and implement a rich music-infused curriculum across the grade levels.  Our students are also exposed to the Visual Arts through Meet the Masters.  Students and teachers study about famous artists and then have the opportunity to create their own masterpieces.  Glazier also offers an afterschool art class, Young Rembrandts, where students have an additional period to develop their art skills.  Glazier continues to expand instruction in the arts with on going staff development to create a comprehensive “Arts for All” program.  We are extremely proud of our students and continue to see an increase in student achievement as a result of the “Arts” implementation.

   Congratulations to our ASES Gladiator Academy program for being selected for the  “Galan Program of the Year” award and to Ms. T for being honored as the District’s “Tutor of the Year” award.  The ASES Gladiator Academy is designed to enhance our instructional program by providing an extended school day from dismissal to 5:30 every day.  Standards-based, data-driven lessons, and progress monitoring that targets instruction is the ASES structure that delivers results. In our afterschool Gladiator Academy, students are receiving intervention through the Cycles of Inquiry (COI).  Pre and post data are analyzed to create the most effective targeted instruction for our students. The program also incorporates enrichment clubs, field trips, performing arts, and philanthropic involvement within the program structure. Our ASES staff are top-notch educators who are making a difference.  Ms. Yvette Macias, ASES site coordinator, and our ASES teachers (Ms. Ramos, Ms. Deleon, Ms. T,  and Ms. Morales) are consistently aligning their curriculum to the identified targeted standards on a daily basis.