Message from Principal Sercombe
Greetings Amigos Parents and Community! Fall is here, and the ‘ first six weeks’, a time of establishing new beginnings, getting to know students, building school and classroom communities, and learning about individual academic strengths and needs, has flown. We can now safely say that we are in ‘full swing’ at Amigos! Read more >>

Culturally Responsive Education
At the heart of our work is the goal of building an environment in which teachers, staff, and families are supporting culturally responsive teaching and learning practices and understanding, through the type of language that we use to support positive student relationships to the kinds of routines that are evident in the classrooms and the types of books that are represented in the library. Read more >>

Building Respect and Kindness
At a recent Amigos School Council meeting, one of our parents brought up the question of how we support and address the practice of showing and modeling respect at Amigos. At the elementary level, the notion of respect often translates into classroom rules that are developed by students and teachers around being kind, being able to share, listen, reflect, and compromise. Read more >>

Suspensions and Restorative Justice
In our leadership meetings in August, Superintendent Dr. Young, asked all administrators to review and respond to the practice of “Suspending” students from school this year. Although Amigos has a very low suspension rate, we have also begun to review alternatives to suspension, specifically using practices called ‘Restorative Justice’. Read more >>



A Glimpse at MCAS Data for Amigos
Performance and Growth in 2013 – 2014
Amigos MCAS data from 2013 – 14 reveals that on a scale of lowest, (0) to highest (99), Amigos falls into the 83rd percentile in schools that have a similar structure (K – 8), and demographics (urban) across the state. Read more >>



Parent Communication
There are two forms of communication that the school department, (Welcoming Schools and  the Office of Information and Technology) have been promoting over the past five weeks, Parent Link and Family Contact Books.
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Upcoming Parent Workshops and Events:

C-PAC sponsored forum with Dr. Victoria Greer, Assistant Superintendent for the Office of Student Services
October 21 | 8:30 - 9:30AM | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School
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School Committee Hearing on the 2015-16 CPS Budget
October 21 | 6PM
CRLS, Dr. Henrietta Attles Meeting Room
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Bullying Prevention and Intervention in School
October 22 | 4 - 5PM
CRLS War Memorial, Rm. 115
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Forum on ‘The Spanish Language Learning Targets at the Amigos Two-Way Immersion School' (JrK – 8)
December 10 | 6:30 - 8PM | Amigos School Library
Come hear about the Spanish language targets at each stage /level of development at Amigos in a dual language context. Bring your questions and contributions. The presenters are Ms. Sarah Bartels-Marrero, Biliteracy Coach and Principal Deborah Sercombe. Sponsored by Amigos School and the ASC .