Rama Road Elementary School

Rama Road Elementary is proud to be the first school in North America where learning is powered by Discovery. Students at Rama Road will experience a student centered learning environment each day that:

* Puts the student's needs first

* Focuses all instruction on each student's needs, abilities, interests and learning styles

* Places the teacher as the facilitator of learning

* Acknowledges the student's voice as central to every learning experience

* Provides learning environments and experiences that require students to be active, responsible participants in their own learning.



At Rama Road Elementary, we have created a learning environment that enables students to move at their own optimal pace and receive credit when they demonstrate mastery of the curriculum by:

* Creating and assigning digitized and personalized learning modules for individual skill and concept development

* Working through digitized modules at each student's own pace with the need for both intensive and accelerated instruction considered to provide enrichment for students working above grade level in any subject area



As a parent of a Rama Road student, you will experience our commitment to ensure that every student will meet clearly defined, rigorous standards that will prepare them for success in college or in the career of their choice. Our learning community supports these efforts by:

* Employing the effective use of rigorous and relevant digital curriculum and content that are standards based

* Employing the use of assignment rubrics for students to gauge whether their work meets rigorous criteria

* Employing the use of rubrics for teachers to reflect upon and evaluate authentic student work for rigor



As a school powered by Discovery, Rama Road Elementary optimizes teacher and technology delivered instruction in group and individual work by providing students with blended learning opportunities that provide:

* Consistent access to a variety of devices to communicate, collaborates, curate and create authentic work

* Consistent access to bandwidth and internet connection at the school site

* Consistent access to device neutral, web-based digitized resources and assignments to conduct their work

* Flipped classrooms where students can access lectures beyond the bell, maximizing classroom time for collaborative work