The Lee Academy Pilot School is a fully inclusive, autonomous school, built on partnerships with families, educators, and community members. By meeting children’s social-emotional needs and by guiding them to strive for academic excellence, we are a community which is inclusive, diverse, and equitable valuing all kinds of learners and backgrounds. We celebrate the joy of learning by fostering creativity and curiosity while nurturing the individual genius in every child.
We offer a wide variety of extracurricular activities; ranging from music, physical education, yoga, art, science, Tae Kwon Do, and dance.
A partnership with Urbanity Dance in the fall and Tae Kwon Do lessons in the winter.
Before and after school programs in our building
Students find joy in learning through multiple, diverse experiences. Academically, we use a tiered system of support to address the academic and behavioral needs of each student. We continually monitor students’ academic progress.
We enjoyed our Frog Festival ! Thank you to those families that were able to attend. This month we are continuing studying fractions and practicing comparing fractions using manipulatives. Students also reasoned about the size of fractions by thinking about the size of the piece (i.e. ⅛ is less than ⅓ because eighths are smaller than thir
We enjoyed our Frog Festival ! Thank you to those families that were able to attend. This month we are continuing studying fractions and practicing comparing fractions using manipulatives. Students also reasoned about the size of fractions by thinking about the size of the piece (i.e. ⅛ is less than ⅓ because eighths are smaller than thirds). In Foundations' we are studying what happens when we add a suffix to words ending in “y”. Usually we change the “y” to an “i” and then add the suffix (i.e. study becomes studied). However, if the suffix begins with an “i”, then we keep the “y” (i.e. study becomes studying)
Important Dates:
This month we will be continuing our Connecting Places, Connecting People" Unit. We will be reading informational text entitled "Meet Young Immigrants" & "Drum Dream Girl" and answering the question "What can we learn by exploring stories and music from different places?". We will be finishing up our autobiographies written in poem form
This month we will be continuing our Connecting Places, Connecting People" Unit. We will be reading informational text entitled "Meet Young Immigrants" & "Drum Dream Girl" and answering the question "What can we learn by exploring stories and music from different places?". We will be finishing up our autobiographies written in poem form. In Phonics, we will be working with r- controlled vowels in multisyllabic words. In math we our working with our fluency within 20 and knowledge within 100. We will be using place value to add and subtract.
The First Graders continue to learn about Non-fiction texts in both reading and writing.
In reading, we are learning about “ordinary people who changed the world.” So far, this has included known figures like Martin Luther King, but also some lesser-known stories like the one of Emmanuel Yesboah. Ask your child what it takes for an ordi
The First Graders continue to learn about Non-fiction texts in both reading and writing.
In reading, we are learning about “ordinary people who changed the world.” So far, this has included known figures like Martin Luther King, but also some lesser-known stories like the one of Emmanuel Yesboah. Ask your child what it takes for an ordinary person to change the world!
In phonics, we are finishing up r-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur) and will start to focus on breaking up longer words. While students are reading, if they get to a tricky word tell them to look for parts they know inside of a word.
In math, students have been working on solving addition and subtraction problems efficiently. That means that we are really focussing on quicker math strategies like counting on and use what you know. Here are some examples of how you might use these strategies!
Kindergarten is working on their construction unit reading and learning from fun reads such as "How to Build a House" and "Houses All Around the World".
In math they just learned to count all the way to 100 and now working on writing their number down to 20 as well as counting on and counting by 10s.
We just started our second to last unit: World of Color. Our focus this month will be understanding how colors are all around us and how they mean different things in different places. We will understand how colors can symbolize feelings, keep us safe and the difference of colors in the city.
Mr. Chery has served as our leader since September 2021, and before that served as a principal fellow from the Boston College Lynch Leadership Academy program at the Phineas Bates Elementary School in Roslindale during the 2020-21 school year. While there, Mr. Chery led instructional work by providing educators with feedback on their teaching, leading instructional teams, and reviewing curricula. He increased family involvement through equity affinity groups and facilitated race and equity dialogues among staff. Additionally, Mr. Chery has experience teaching at the elementary level in the Boston Public Schools. He began his career in BPS as a cluster substitute at the Fredrick Pilot Middle School where he taught 7th and 8th-grade science, served as a long-term 3rd-grade substitute teacher at Perkins Elementary School where he would later proudly teach second grade, and continue to do so at Mattahunt Elementary School. Mr. Chery is passionate and committed to urban education. He strongly believes that true education also teaches and develops strong character. His educational philosophy is that all children have a right to quality public education, and he strongly believes he has an ethical accountability to make it available to all students within his sphere of influence and irrespective of social constructs.
Our professional staff demonstrates our commitment to social justice by empowering our students.
Early Educator in room 101
Early educator room 103
I am the Children's Yoga Specialist And Surround care paraprofessional in room 104. BTU representative and Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Coordinator.
Inclusion Teacher room 102
Early Educator room 104
Surround Care para in room 101
She is the heart and soul of the Lee Academy and when she plays the beat to her own drum for our students. Early Educator room 104
Early Educator in room 106
Enjoys spontaneous fun adventures
Early educator room 105
Surround care para in room 106
First grade teacher at Lee Academy. I love helping students discover the reader inside them!
A Lee Academy veteran who we all love and adore
Early educator room 107
Surround Care para for the first grade team, currently helping out with our littles.
Language & Literacy Interventionist
Early Educator in room 205
Co- Educator in room 205
Early Educator in room 204
Co-Educator in room 204
LATF
ESL for 2nd grade & K2
Early Educator in room 203
Surround care super hero in room 203
Early Educator in room 202
Surround care para in room 202
Hi, I'm Keri Purple. I am the Director of Instruction. I have been at the Lee Academy for many years now and have enjoyed watching so many of our students grow up over the years here. I support teachers with observation, feedback, data inquiry cycles, unit development, and planning. I support students in small group intervention as needed as well.
School Psychologist
School Social Worker
Family Liaison who has The best of both worlds, with kids who are students at the Lee Academy and also a part of the Lee team.
I'm the math coach at LAPS. I've been working at the school for 5 years. I love my job because I get to learn with and from the amazing teachers and students at the school. When I'm not working I enjoy spending time with my kids. Our hobbies include taking walks/hikes, going to the beach, traveling and watching sports.
Science teacher former 3rd grade hero
Physical Education intstructor
School secretary
School Custodian
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