Principal Victorie Thomas
The school’s principal, Dr. Victorie Thomas describes instructional changes that have helped boost student achievement: “We focus on item analysis, short-cycle assessments, student work protocols, classroom walkthroughs and feedback, reteach plans, and reflections. The teachers are constantly looking at various pieces of data to drive their work.”
“If I could be in their building every day to do the work of ANet alongside them, I would. They’re phenomenal. I just love the team, and the school community is amazing. ”
Patterson’s ANet coach Lysa Scott emphasizes the “amazing” community’s “all-hands-on-deck” culture. “From the minute you walk in the door, you sense they are a tight-knit community. Everybody in the building values everyone else’s role. Victorie and her AP were going into classrooms and doing small-group math instruction.”
Scott continues, “It’s about the vertical alignment: Teachers think about instruction a level below and above. They dig in and help each other plan lessons. It’s not ‘You just teach these kids;’ it’s ‘They’re all our kids.’ It makes you invested when you walk in.”