Osborn is hosting an important public meeting to discuss the district budget on April 5th at 7:00 pm at the Solano School on Montebello and 15th Ave (just south of Christown Mall).
Mark your calendar for the OMS EXPO 2011 on March 25 from 5:00.pm to 7:30 pm. The event is free and brings together many Phoenix health and educational resources: City of Phoenix Neighborhood Services, Head Start, Healthy Families (Southwest Human Development, DES & First Things First), Birth to Five Help Line, AHCCCS Women’s Health Coalition, Literacy Corner, Native American Connections Family Housing, Native American Community Health Center, Tobacco Use Prevention, Banner Good Sam, Poison & Drug Information Center, Assoc. for Supportive Child Care Home Safety, and St. Joseph’s Injury-free Coalition Car Seat Safety. Various educational institutions including: Phoenix College, Glendale College, Brookline College, and various Phoenix High Schools will also be present. For more information please call Principal Marty Makar: 602-707-2410.
Kindergarten Registration will begin on March 24 at the Osborn Schools listed below. Each school offers unique award-winning programs for students beginning in Kindergarten. Longview offers the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme as a candidate school (during a two-year certification process). Longview is the only public elementary IB Candidate School in Phoenix. Encanto offers the A+ Spanish Dual Language program which continues through 8th grade at Clarendon and the Osborn Middle School for families seeking a bilingual education for their children. Solano is offering a Modified Traditional School approach to education, and received an A+ award for their Writing Program. Montecito is a Community School with an A+ Peace Program award. Please call the school below for more information or visit the website http://www.OsbornSchools.org for the 2011 Kindergarten application. Please bring immunization records and birth certificate. All children who will be five before September 1, 20011 are eligible to register for Kindergarten.
Encanto School 1420 W. Osborn Rd. (15th Ave. x Osborn Rd.) (602) 707-2300
Longview School 1209 E. Indian School Rd. (12th St. south of Indian School Rd.) (602) 707-2700
Montecito School 715 E. Montecito Ave. (7th St. north of Indian School Rd.) (602) 707-2500
Solano School 1526 W. Missouri Ave. (15th Ave. x Montebello) (602) 707-2600
District Information
Osborn welcomes six AmeriCorps volunteers brought through a partnership with Communities in Schools Arizona to support after school and family programming and to develop Integrated Student Support Services. Athena Torretti, Molly Hynes, Jeanette Goseyun, Steven Keller, Chanel Moody, and Samantha Roney will volunteer for a year in Osborn’s six schools. Each comes to the district with vast experience and a strong commitment to develop community resources to serve students.
Osborn Middle School (7-8)
Congratulations to the Mathematics teachers and students: OMS has earned an A+ Exemplary Program Award from the Arizona Educational Foundation for their Honors Mathematics Program. The program increases academic opportunities for OMS students by accelerating their mathematics coursework. It has grown from serving fifty students in 2006 to more than one hundred-fifty this year: One out of four OMS students are in the Honors Mathematics Program. Four outstanding teachers: Sarah Saiz, Shannon Green, Kelly Doherty, and Eva Gomez, deliver the five sections of high school mathematics and three sections of Honors Pre Algebra which comprise the Honors Mathematics program. Master Teacher Loril Gibson is responsible for student placement and program monitoring. Strong preparation by Osborn’s elementary school teaching staff has more students ready to enter Algebra I (a ninth grade course) in seventh grade. As a result of having seventh graders proficient in Algebra I, the program expanded to include a tenth grade Geometry course for those students as eighth graders. Osborn Middle School is the only middle school in Phoenix that offers Geometry. Last year, there were 20 students from Phoenix middle schools who took the Geometry Qualifying Test and 19 of them were from Osborn!
Accelerated completion of Algebra I offers students greater access to upper level mathematics courses in high school, which has been correlated with increased college graduation rates. Honors Mathematics Program offers students two paths: taking Algebra I as an eighth grader (one year accelerated) or taking Algebra I as a seventh grader (two years accelerated). Our partnership with the Phoenix Union High School District allows students to not only begin the sequence earlier, but also to earn high school credit for mathematics while attending OMS. Last year, 74 Osborn students went to high school having already completed one or two of the four required mathematics courses, giving them greater access to upper level mathematics electives.
Solano School (K-6)
Congratulations to Solano teachers and students: Solano has earned an A+ Exemplary Program Award from the Arizona Educational Foundation for the Solano Writing Project. Each month every Solano student writes a selection based on a writing prompt for their grade level. Teachers focus on a six trait writing rubric as they teach their students the process. The traits are: Ideas & Content, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. At the end of each month each teacher selects one student’s writing piece which best demonstrates the traits covered in class. The selected student participates in the monthly Writers’ Showcase; a special event at which the principal and other selected students read and discuss their work. The selected writing pieces are uploaded each month and are published on the school website. The monthly writing pieces of all students are posted on a writing wall in the classroom each month and are also collected into a portfolio which is shared with the parents on Young Authors’ Night during the month of May. Since the implementation of this focus on writing, Solano has seen an improvement in our writing scores when compared to state-wide AIMS scores.
How Osborn Schools compare to west of Central charter schools:
83% of charter schools have equal or lower growth in math than their traditional public school equivalent (Credo, Stanford, 2009).
Several local charter schools are failing to meet state standards and are labeled “Underperforming.”
All Osborn District schools meet state standards and are labeled by Arizona as “Performing Plus” and “Performing.”
Source: Cynthia Westberg, EdM, Osborn School District
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