Welcome to Tenino Elementary School, home of Tenino the Tiger! We are a community of third, fourth, and fifth grade students learning, growing, and mastering a host of basic skills in preparation for life. We take pride in the excitement and passion that we infuse into the learning process.

We are becoming experts in understanding the connection between improvement on the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) and the daily activities in the classroom. Preliminary data reflects a correlation between MAP and the state assessment called the Measure of Student Progress (MSP). There is a sustained effort to continue to explore academic interventions to address gaps in student learning.

Organization of the school day supports an uninterrupted morning with specialists in the afternoon providing physical education and general music.

Please feel free to visit our Staff page to contact your child’s teacher or specialists or the Contact Us page for our address or phone number. We look forward to hearing from you.

Dear Parents and Students,

We are celebrating a series of profound successes this year with the reading program called “PRO.” Our staff has made a quantum leap in understanding how to connect kids with this interactive web-based program. We have seen the results: outstanding student growth in reading and improvement in student self-esteem. As a consequence of implementing PRO, we have made profound impacts in the lives of children.  We have changed the course of destiny for them.

What Did We Do?
The journey started last fall by using data from the Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP) screener to identify children whose assessment results indicated they were reading below their grade level. A student’s ability to read is measured in terms of comprehension and fluency. They often go hand in hand.

Once we had identified the sixty children from our school population who were reading below their grade level, we arranged for them to be re-calibrated directly through the PRO program. Once calibrated and in the system, we provided those students with supervised access to computers to allow them to read and re-read the PRO stories and complete the tasks associated with them. Students listened with headphones as the stories were being read.

As pointed out by Dr. Marie Carbo, creator of PRO, and as we know from our own PRO data, reading progress correlates directly to the number of stories that the student completes. As a parent, you want your child to read as many as 40 stories in five months through PRO, while your child also continues to receive direct reading instruction in the classroom. The more stories a student reads, the more we will measure progress, and the faster they will experience success in all aspects of school and life.
 
PRO is a web-based online program that students can access from home. Parents become partners with us by providing opportunities for their children to continue to read the PRO stories at a high frequency. Call the school if you are not sure how to support your child at home.

The PRO program requires trained adults to intervene routinely in the child’s progress through an activity called a “Read-back.”  We have trained staff, who are joined by a few trained TES parents, who monitor student progress for quality and provide read-back support.

More information is available by reading Dr. Carbo’s newsletters under Quick Links on this site. It works like magic . . . just add PRO! 

Sincerely,



David Ford, Principal