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School is a time of tremendous wonder, discovery and growth for children in kindergarten through grade five. Our young learners engage in a comprehensive educational program that develops their thinking and communication skills and teaches them the joy of learning.
Our six exemplary elementary schools provide instruction in language arts, math, science, social studies, Spanish, computer technology, art, music, and physical education. Faculty utilize multiple learning strategies to enhance children’s individual abilities.
Small class sizes provide an ideal environment for our youngest learners to receive individualized attention. Additional staff, including paraeducators and specialized instructors, create an enviable student/staff ratio of 10:1.
Conant, Eastover, Hickory Grove, Pine Lake and Way are NCA accredited schools. Lone Pine is a fully-authorized International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme school, and also offers a newcomer’s English Language Learners program.
Lone Pine - Primary Years Programme
Lone Pine Elementary is a fully-authorized Primary Years Programme school of the world-recognized International Baccalaureate Organization - the first in Michigan. The PYP curriculum, with its international focus, helps children develop academically, socially, emotionally, physically, and culturally, and will best address the needs of the diverse student population
Way - Visible Thinking
Bloomfield Hills Schools is proud to recognize Way Elementary as the only school in Oakland County to fully adopt Project Zero’s Visible Thinking out of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Visible Thinking engages students in in-depth thinking, deepens subject matter learning, and provides a means for extensive student interaction. This research-based approach utilizes thinking routines that are integrated into and across all content areas. Through the implementation of Visible Thinking, Way Elementary has become a place in which a group’s collective, as well as individual, thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted as part of the regular day to day experiences of all group members kindergarten through fifth grade.
For more information about Visible Thinking at Way Elementary, contact Adam Scher at 248-341-7805 or view the Visible Thinking page at way.bloomfield.org.
The Eastover Initiative
Eastover Elementary School, in collaboration with Lawrence Technological University, has implemented sustainability education. Through this initiative Eastover will improve teaching and learning using interdisciplinary classroom units, community based projects, and an inquiry based curriculum. Students will make connections across subject areas by investigating, analyzing, researching, and solving problems. Students will apply their learning to authentic situations through purposeful and positive actions. The integrated curriculum will support the following areas: natural resources, food systems, land use, sustainable communities, renewable energy, urban revitalization, and green architecture. Beginning this year, in collaboration with Glen LeRoy, FAIA, FAICP, Dean of Lawrence Tech’s School of Architecture and Design, we began our Green Box City project. This hands-on project allows our students to learn about sustainability and the built environment. Sustainability, or meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, becomes the common thread that teachers, staff and students use for meaningful learning experiences and creating a sense of community.
Pine Lake - Oakland University Collaboration
Pine Lake Elementary School’s collaboration with Oakland University is enhancing student learning through an extended teaching experience for student teachers which brings the student to staff ratio to as low at 8:1 in some classrooms. In addition, Pine Lake students are participating in a multi-age action research project and every child will be with an adult mentor and advocate in a “den” throughout his or her time at Pine Lake. Students will also participate in community service projects and their work will culminate in an International Day in the spring.
Our goals are to increase a child’s sense of connectedness and belonging to a community, and to increase independence. The instructional heart of the initiative is teaching students to think in metaphors, similes and analogies. Oakland University faculty will be studying the social/emotional effects of teacher mentoring and this instructional approach. In turn, Bloomfield Hills Schools is extending learning opportunities for student teachers by employing them after graduation for a semester as teacher interns.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 December 2008 )
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