Parent/Student Handbook:
Refer to our Parent Student Handbook for comprehensive information about Beattie Elementary. This Handbook is reviewed and updated annually and is subject to change. It includes and links to essential information on:
Open Classrooms:
The open classroom design became popular in the U.S. in the early 1970s, when Beattie Elementary was built. This design places students in larger classrooms with several teachers, without walls and doors separating the spaces. This allows for movement and collaboration among students and teachers.
Today, Beattie Elementary’s staff, parents, and students embrace the open classroom layout as a positive and unique feature that defines the school and its learning style. This design allows for student movement, team-teaching, and cooperative learning, which are not possible in traditional classrooms. Despite the lack of physical boundaries, each room has clearly defined learning areas, and students remain focused on their activities. The learning environment is calm and focused, with high expectations set each day.
Beattie Glossary:
There are acronyms, abbreviations and different names you will hear and see at Beattie. To reduce confusion, here are the more common terms used at our school.
Grade Level Names:
| Tiny Town | Preschool |
| Bear Lake | Kindergarten |
| Evergreen | 1st Grade |
| Castle Rock | 2nd Grade |
| Silverton | 3rd Grade |
| Mesa Verde | 4th Grade |
| Longs Peak | 5th Grade |
School Terms
| BLT | Beattie Leadership Team - Leadership Team, meets monthly |
| CMAS | Colorado Measures of Academic Success - Annual State Test |
| CogAT | Cognitive Abilities Test - Screening Test, given to all 2nd Graders |
| DIBELS | Dynamic Indicator of Basic Early Literacy Skills - Reading Test |
| ML | Multi-lingual Learners - Students learning language in addition to academic content |
| IEP | Individual Education Plans - written for students with Special Education and Relates Services Needs |
| MAP | Measure of Academic Progress - Tests to measure growth in reading and math, given to 2nd-5th grade students in the fall, winter and spring |
| MTSS | Multi-Tier System of Support - data-driven, responsive framework for improving student learning outcomes |
| OM | Odyssey of the Mind - extracurricular program designed for creative thinking |
| PBiS | Positive Behavior Intervention Support - school wide program, helps promote and recognize positive behavior and to teach our behavioral expectations |
| PLC | Professional Learning Community - a collaborative meeting of educators |
| RAMS | Respect All, Act Responsibly, Motivated to Learn, Safety – an acronym to promote our PBIS efforts |
| READ Plan | Written for students with a specific reading deficiency or challenges |
| RtI | Response to Intervention - series of steps staff and parents collaboratively take to ensure students receive academic and/or behavioral interventions to enhance student success |
| SST | Student Success Team - work together with families to brainstorm ways to support a student who is struggling with learning or behavior |
Community Terms:
| BAT | Parent Teacher Organization(PTO), open to all families |
| DAB | District Advisory Board - group of parents and community members who offer input to the Board of Education. A SAC member serves as a representative for Beattie. |
| PSD | Poudre School District |
| SAC | School Advisory Committee - group of parents, staff, and community members, and the principal, work to support our school improvement efforts |