Rufus Payne Elementary School provides many extended learning opportunities for students that may be experiencing academic difficulty.

After school tutoring services are offered to all 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students. Student groups for after-school tutoring are formulated based on:

* Low Quartile Reading

* Low Quartile Math

* Level 1 Reading

* Level 1 Math

* Level 2 Reading

* Level 2 Math

* Bubble Students Reading

* Bubble Students Math

* 4th Grade Writing

* 3rd Grade FCAT Prep

Tutoring services are offered three days a week for an hour each day. In most cases, the child’s classroom teacher conducts the tutoring. The Tutoring Coordinator collects data every three weeks to monitor and determine academic gains. To assure student attendance, a bus is provided for students whose parents are not able to pick them up. Financial compensation to teachers for after-school tutoring services is provided through:

* District SAI Remediation funds

Rufus Payne Elementary didmeet adequate yearly progress under No Child Left Behind Legislation in 2007. However, we did not make it in 2008. Because the school did not make AYP two years in a row, our students are eligible to receive free tutoring services through the Title I office. These services are offered three days per week for one hour each day. Thirty-nine private education providers were available for our parents to choose, with some offering to provide the services at the school. Payne does not limit extended learning opportunities to just after school. Other opportunities that occur during the day for our students at Rufus E. Payne are:

In-school extended learning opportunities include differentiated instruction through a targeted Skills Block, Readers Workshop, Writers Workshop and Math Investigations Workshop. If after whole group and small group instruction students continue to have academic difficulty, additional time has been allocated in each teacher’s schedule to allow students an opportunity to receive between 15 to 30 minutes of immediate intensive intervention (iii).

Using school and district generated instructional pacing guides, all 3rd through 5th grade Rufus Payne students are progress monitored every three weeks in reading, science, writing and mathematics This school wide plan affords the Instructional Support Team the opportunity to monitor instruction and it gives teachers the opportunity to measure instructional methods for student success. Progress monitoring for kindergarten, first and second grade students includes all students that scored intensive and/or strategic on the first assessment of DIBELS.

All students that scored a level 1 or a level 2 on the 2006 FCAT will receive an individualized action plan with specific strategies designed to provide intensive remediation for deficit areas.

Students that are not in need of the Academic Resource Block (Level 3-5 students) receive 2.5 hours of enrichment through challenging activities designed to enhance their academic rigor.

For students that have experienced academic difficulty and have been retained at least once in third grade, and who have also repeated twice, the STAR program is offered. This is a drop-out prevention program that will allow students the opportunity to eventually recover and be placed in their appropriate school grade. Based on a reading placement assessment, students can receive intensive reading intervention from the SRA McGraw-Hill Direct Instruction Corrective Action model.