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The program is FREE. Help your child read to succeed!
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Growing Our Ballard Readers
We are intentional at Ballard about knowing your child as a reader. Along with daily reading instruction, interventions, and assessments we want to see the growth in their reading abilities! Please take a look at the Next Step Guided Reading Assessment data that is checked three times a year: Fall, Winter, and Spring. Also remember to have them access their Literacy Footprints Digital account to continue their love of reading at home!
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Focus at Your Fingertips
We know it can be a challenge to keep up with everything going on at school. The MySDMC Focus App is designed to provide secure, easy access to important student information for SDMC Parents, Students and Staff. Parents can check grades and attendance for all their kids. Students can see their assignments with due date on their planner page. Everyone can have Focus at their fingertips.
Upcoming Events
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Welcome to Ballard Elementary School
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Mission Statement:
We believe that all students are important and valuable. We believe that failure does not break us but is the foundation for our success We believe that our dreams and goals will be reached through hard work and effort We believe that effort is the key to our success. We believe that all students will be successful everyday who work hard and try.Vision Statement:
Ballard will be a collaborative learning community of students, families, and staff aspiring to create leaders and positive role models who will serve as anchors for the global community of our future. We will empower all students to achieve their highest level of academic excellence and we will work cooperatively to establish a respectful and supportive learning environment.
District Hot Topics
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School Board Revisions to Face Mask/Covering Policy and Protocols
Please see updates made to face mask/covering policy and protocols by the School Board at its meeting on November 10, 2020.
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Board Approves 2020-2022 Strategic Plan
Approved at the School Board meeting on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, the new plan outlines our vision and sets a strong direction for investing in our students, employees, district and community for the next two years.
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Privacy Notice to All eLearners | Aviso de privacidad para todos los eLearners
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that protects student privacy. Posting recordings of eLearning lessons — including audio or video recordings — may be a violation of federal law under FERPA.
La Ley de Privacidad y Derechos Educativos de la Familia (FERPA) es una ley federal que protege la privacidad de los estudiantes. Publicar grabaciones de lecciones de eLearning, incluidas grabaciones de audio o video, puede ser una violación de la ley federal bajo FERPA. -
Florida Value Added Model (VAM) Fiscal Transparency Tool
The Florida Department of Education has released a web-based fiscal transparency tool intended to help taxpayers evaluate the financial efficiency of a school district with other similarly situated school districts.
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