Activities
The following are some of the activities available at Dogwood Elementary.
- Advanced and Accelerated Math
- After School Programming through Community Partnerships
- Co-teaching Instructional Model
- Collaborative Learning Teams
- Differentiated Instruction
- Dogwood Connections (Parent Resource Center) with bilingual parent liaisons
- Dogwood Dance and Cheer Team
- Early Intervention Reading Initiative (EIRI)
- Family Literacy Classes
- Full-time Advanced Academics Resource Teacher (AART)
- After School Running Club
- Grade level learning gardens
- Guided Reading and a balanced literacy program
- Imagine Learning
- Instructional Coach, Literacy Coaches, Math Coaches
- Leveled Literacy Instruction (LLI)
- Mentor Works: Student Mentoring Program
- 1 to 1 laptops in grades 3-6
- iPads in grades K-2
- Monthly Parent "Coffee Talks" with Principal
- News Broadcast Team (WDES)
- Peer Mediation Program
- Project LIFT-Summer Reading Program
- PTO Sponsored, Community Building Events
- Reading is Fundamental
- Reduced pupil-teacher staffing ratio in grades K-3
- Response to Intervention
- Safety Patrols
- School Wide Responsive Classroom
- SmartBoard Technology
- STEAM program
- Strings/Band 4-6
- Student Leadership Team
- Student iPad Lab
- Summer Inquiry Camp
- Teachers as Readers
- Time to Shine drama club
- Waterford phonological computer program in FECEP, kindergarten, and grade one