Mrs. Buckley
Grades K-4 Support Specialist
Room Number: 215
Phone Number: 508-696-6519
Email Address:

At the Tisbury School we are fortunate to be able to offer extra support in the academic areas of reading, writing and mathematics in addition to students' regularly scheduled academic times in the classroom. After consulting with the classroom teachers and the special education teachers, students are selected to participate in small group instruction based on teacher recommendations and assessment scores from selection/theme tests, GRADE, Scholastic Reading Inventory, HM Leveled Reader Assessment, MCAS and DIBELS Next.

A resource block is set up within each classroom schedule to allow for students to be pulled for small group instruction without missing any of their Unified Arts classes. Currently, I meet with students three to five times per week for 30 - 45 minute blocks, depending on students' needs. My goals as a support specialist are to provide math support and provide extra literacy support to build confidence, motivate students to read, and to foster a love of reading and math. Some students receive specially designed instruction while others are practicing and reinforcing what they have learned in their classroom to help them become more confident in their abilities.

Weekly consult times with the ELL teacher, special education teachers, and classroom teachers are essential to ensure we are all focusing on the same topics and using similar techniques with our students.

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