Los Paseos Elementary
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Mission Statement
Los Paseos has served students in the suburban South San Jose area of the Morgan Hill Unified School District since 1975. The student and staff population reflect Silicon Valley’s economic and ethnic diversity, including physical and social complexities. Los Paseos fosters an inclusive environment of supporting students with special learning and therapeutic needs in grades TK-Fifth Grade. Our campus climate facilitates awareness and acceptance, both of which help all students build character. Panther students of all ages are challenged to display their personal best in pursuit to achieve academic excellence.
About This Cause
Vision and Mission Statement: ACHIEVE We know that all students can achieve their personal best through PAWS expectations of being peaceful, aware, wise and safe on campus. BELIEVE We believe that all students can make positive contributions to society and it is our moral imperative to tap into each individual’s potential. CULTIVATE We cultivate 21st century skills and encourage our students to persevere. STRIVE We strive to help our students become compassionate and confident in an ever-changing world. Los Paseos staff members work collaboratively to provide our students the best education possible based on the Common Core Standards. Staff members are proud to have added a Transitional Kindergarten class to campus this year. Providing students who meet the age criteria an opportunity to be immersed in a language-rich environment while enriching social and emotional skills will better prepare students to be successful in Kindergarten and beyond. Grade level teams work together weekly to plan instruction, enrich reading opportunities, develop lessons to increase number sense in mathematics, and differentiate curriculum to best support student learning styles. Best practices include sharing student engagement strategies, Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) strategies, and teacher peer observations and mentoring. We believe that joyful and passionate teaching results in engaged learners increasing their capacity to retain and expand information. This is the first year that Los Paseos have implemented a school-wide extended day program called “ASEP” or After School Enrichment Program. Targeted students include 1st through 5th grade students who are performing either far below grade level or somewhat below grade level. The ultimate goal is to help these “bubble” students overcome any academic hurdles preventing them from feeling or achieving success at meeting their grade level standards. In English Language Arts, the overview of focus skills include the following: phonics, sight words, comprehension, main ideas, predicting, fluency, summarizing, figurative language, and making inferences. In Math, the overview of focus skills include the following: math fact fluency, place value, regrouping (addition & subtraction), multiplication, division, fractions, geometry, and measurement. In writing, the area of focus includes the following: grammar, sentence structure, and paragraph writing. The ASEP team discusses goals with each grade level team to ensure that students are working towards meeting the standards currently being addressed in the classroom. In addition, the team reviews and strengthens skills that were previously taught but may not have been mastered during previous years. Los Paseos offers a wide-range of enrichment opportunities for our students which are funded by the Home & School Club. Khoa Nguyen or “Coach”, from One Yard, is the school coach who helps to promote good sportsmanship and facilitates physical activity instruction during recesses, lunches, and individual classes weekly. He also has a variety of enrichment after school activities offered during the school year. We have a wonderful music program with Mrs. Karen Crane every Thursday, and a highlight of this program is 5th graders having the opportunity to play recorders. A new addition to Los Paseos this year is a dance and music production class led by instructor Mr. Exavier Viramontez, from Troubadour Beat Lab. Dance styles included swing, line, merengue, waltz, and more! Many grade levels schedule on-site science classes throughout the year. Our GATE club offers amazing classes that students can attend afterschool, including a college tour and physics day at Great America. Our 5th grade students will be attending Science Camp in December. The Los Paseos Home and School Club also supports many of the enrichment opportunities for students and supports specific financial needs. Great effort is put forth all year to raise funds that support field trips, assemblies, and classroom supplies for our students. The Home and School Club also runs our Books and Beyond program, aimed at encouraging students to read. Students earn a chance to “shop” at our Books and Beyond “store”. Our Home and School Club also promotes “community” by offering movie and bingo nights as well as hosting our annual “Spring Carnival”. Each classroom has a Home and School Club representative, or Room Parent, that works as a liaison between the parents and the Home and School Club. Panther Pride is abundant at Los Paseos. We have monthly Friday assemblies where our school wide Panther Rap is chanted. These assemblies are led by the student council, which is comprised of 4th & 5th graders. Our safety patrol takes great pride in greeting cars and assisting in opening doors every morning. Many staff members have been formally trained in Project Cornerstone and which focuses on supporting and building developmental assets in children. Additionally, Los Paseos staff and students participate in Bullying Prevention, which helps to provide all students strategies on helping themselves and others. Counseling and social emotional support for students and families is available through our strong partnership with Discovery Counseling. This school year, we are lucky to have two counselors working with Los Paseos students three days weekly.