About Lincoln Avenue School

Lincoln Avenue is designed as a Professional Learning Community in which staff members collaborate to ensure all students learn. What does being a Professional Learning Community (PLC) look like? We begin by making sure that all classes in a grade level are learning the same skills about around the same time of the year. We also decide on common times to check student learning. Each month, all the teachers who teach the same grade meet to talk about these tests.

Our discussions revolve around:

• How our students are doing?
• Which students are having difficulties?
• What can we do to help these students?

For your children it means that they have a team of staff, in addition to their own teacher, making sure they learn. For teachers it means that we are working together to share ideas, and help all students achieve.

History

When Lincoln Avenue Elementary School opened its doors in 1915, it was known as South Girls Junior Trade School. Its purpose was to teach homemaking skills to young girls in the neighborhood. The original school was a 10-room barrack building, which included four classrooms, one assembly hall and several small classrooms.

The present school building was constructed in 1918, the same year its name was changed to Lincoln Avenue. Like the neighborhood in which it is located, many changes have taken place at Lincoln Avenue.

Bilingual/Bicultural Education

Lincoln Avenue Elementary recognizes the importance of providing equal educational opportunities to language minority students. The Bilingual/Bicultural Education Program provides linguistically and culturally district students with an opportunity to experience early academic success in their first language while learning English as a second language. It is an educational process, which enhances language skills acquisition and fosters basic skills development. In addition, it creates a multicultural environment whereby students' appreciation for their own and other cultures is encouraged. Community and parent involvement is pertinent to the effectiveness of the program.

The Bilingual/Bicultural Program is designed to ensure that language minority students become fluent and literate in English. It also stresses retention and development of a child's primary language and use of that language as a vehicle or medium for exploring and acquiring a second language. The Bilingual/Bicultural Program holds the promise of helping to improve human relations in our community and contributing to a mutually respectful and creative society.

English as a Second Lanuage (ESL) Program

English as a Second Language is a specific discipline that uses an approach allowing students to learn English systematically and cumulatively, moving from concrete to abstract levels of language in a spiraling fashion. An English as a Second Language program is sensitive to the first languages and cultures of the students as well as to their prior academic background. The ESL program functions to facilitate their integration into the school and the community.

Certain principles are followed to best promote language acquisition in a learner-centered approach. These principles guide the teaching/learning process following the premise that learners learn a language best when:

1. They are treated as individuals with their own needs and interests.
2. They are provided with opportunities to participate in communicative use of English in a wide range of activities.
3. They are exposed to communicative data that is comprehensible and relevant to their own needs and interests.
4. They focus deliberately on various language forms, skills (understanding, speaking, reading, and writing), and strategies in order to support the process of language acquisition.
5. They are exposed to sociocultural data and direct experience of the cultures embedded within the target language.
6. They become aware of the role and nature of language and of culture.
7. They are provided with appropriate feedback about their progress.

ESL is provided for students enrolled in Bilingual Education.

Speech Therapy

Lincoln Avenue School currently employs two full-time speech-language pathologists. We provide both pull-out small group speech therapy sessions and inclusive classroom based speech therapy for children ages K3 through 5th grade with speech and/or language needs. We specialize in the remediation of speech sound production, delays in receptive and expressive language, disfluency, and voice problems. Our responsibilities include: assessment, treatment, treatment planning, documentation, IEP writing and planning, student and family education, and special education team collaboration.

Special Education

Lincoln Avenue School supports children with special education needs from K3 through 5th grade in both monolingual and bilingual programs. We offer full time inclusion and special education support in K3/4 and K5 classrooms. We offer one transitional special education classroom for those children who need more support before moving full time into the regular education classrooms in 1st grade. This classroom also supports our children with the greatest needs in the early grades (1-3).

We also have a self contained classroom for children with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities effective Sept 2007. The Special Education Needs teachers support full inclusion classrooms in K-5 through 5th making modifications, or accommodations to the regular curriculum as well as pull-out resource for specialized instruction per Individual Education Plans. We welcome the individuality of each unique child here at Lincoln Ave.

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Aurora School-Based Health Program

This program provides a clinic in the school that is staffed with a registered nurse and, at times, a medical/clinic assistant. Urgent problems and injuries, physical exams and health care screenings (i.e., vision screening, height/weight/blood pressure) are addressed by the clinic staff.

The RN provides case management for children with ongoing health concerns and offers health education for the students and staff. The RN also maintains communication with parents and acts as a resource for all health care needs. Dawn Putnam serves as Community Nurse for Lincoln Avenue Elementary School. To contact her, please call the clinic at (414) 902-9720.

WE Indians Program

The WE INDIANS Program of the Milwaukee Public Schools is a Title VII program funded by a grant from the Office of Indian Education. The purpose of the Title VII grant is to assist the school district in providing American Indian students with the opportunity to meet the same challenging state standards as all other students and meet the unique educational and culturally related academic needs of American Indian students. The WE INDIANS Program is located at the Kosciuszko, which is located at 971 W. Windlake Avenue. The phone number for the program is (414) 902-7200.

Lincoln Avenue School PBIS Rules

1. Be Prepared
2. Be Respectful
3. Be Responsible
4. Be Safe

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