Warren Prep Academy, Public School 28K is located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and serves a student population of about 290students. We are a Pre-K through 5 School Wide Enrichment ModelSchool that offers a rigorous curriculum as well as enrichment clustersbased on the talents of our staff and interests of our students. Webelieve in community and that is what has led us to have such a strongrelationship with the Community Learning Support Organization.All of the data-driven decisions are made in the best interest of our staff, students and the families we serve. We are a school that hasembraced the Children First Accountability tools such as the periodicassessments. We believe in return on investment so we workstrategically to see whether or not our systems and structures aremeeting the needs of our families, which of course means ourstudents. 100% of our staff members benefit from the Inquiry Team. The work of the Inquiry Team is manifested throughout our school eachand every day. This has led to our evolution as a school that serves families. Wehave always shared space with the Bedford Stuyvesant Multi-ServiceCenter, but since Ms. Sadie Silver became the principal in August of 2006, the school has become a haven for students as well as the adultmembers of the families. The Learning Environment Survey provides uswith some insight on what the needs of our parents are and awelcoming environment has opened up the dialogue between the

school and parents. This has led us to move our school from an F to aB. We understand that in a small school, each student must succeed inorder for the school to reach high levels academic achievement. Ourgoal is to become a 90/90/90 school and then a 100/100/100 school asDoug Reeves calls high performing Title I schools.We offer day and evening adult education and training programsthrough partnerships with non-profit organizations that have becometenants in our building with a separate entrance and a verticalalignment that is a model for others who share space. Many of ourparents come to school with their children in the morning and then goto security guard or nursing school. Others might come in the eveningfrom work to take GED or ESL classes. We offer services ranging fromstress management to youth training and development. We are soproud to say that we serve families at Warren Prep Academy, PublicSchool 28K. Picture a parent dropping off his or her child with a nurse’suniform and then going through double doors to nursing school. It is abeautiful sight. This is what community is all about, and still we have alot of work to do. We are currently offering housing workshops throughone of our partners because we understand that 42% of our studentsare in temporary housing. Most of them come from doubled upfamilies. Developing relationships with parents is essential and we tryto gather as much information about their needs as possible viaconversations.

The amazing staff at P.S. 28K engages in school-wide planningpulling from all data sources to develop research-based structures andsystems that will enable us to further our school improvement efforts.We utilize Acuity’s periodic assessments to see how well the studentsare doing in relation to the standards. We also use Acuity as a way toprovide targeted skill instruction in Literacy and Mathematics. Scantronis used by our Intervention Specialists for students in the lowest 1/3 toensure that we are helping them gain catch-up growth. Catch-upgrowth students are students who need to make more than one year’sgrowth.As you may already know, our data gathering does not begin inthe testing grades because closing the achievement gap needs tobegin in the primary grades. We have been piloting WirelessGeneration M-CLASS System’s DIBELS and M-CLASS to start gaugingthe strengths and goals of our early childhood students. We provideintensive intervention at those levels to begin closing the gap early on.Using data from all sources including the Renzulli LearningInventory, we develop structures that include what students love to dosuch as chorus, violin, keyboarding, dance, etc. We explore ways tointegrate the arts and physical education into the curriculum. We havepartnered with a company called Learning Directions to free ourteachers up from maintaining binders. The data spreadsheets pullinformation from all of our online data sources and highlight trends for