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About Us

Who are we?

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. 

Exciting Extracurriculars

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

  • Before School: 7:30-9:15 and Reebok BOK sessions
  • After school:  Champions has a great solution for busy working families: activities that combine fun and learning, together with the safety and convenience of a high-quality program right inside your school. Champions offers a variety of group and individual activities designed to keep your child exploring and growing. From art, dramatic play, math and science to problem-solving, language, motor skills and more, we help your child continue learning and developing essential life skills – whether school is in session or not.

Champions

Special Academics Curriculum

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. 

  • General education/special education inclusion classrooms in all grades
  • A pilot school offering a comprehensive program with high-quality instruction and support for children ages 3-8 (grades K0-3) and their families
  • An inclusive community of learners
  • Looping in some grades: children have the same teacher for two years
  • Social skills curriculum: Second Steps certified teachers to help foster social-emotional development

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What our learners are doing

3rd Grade

3rd Grade

3rd Grade

 This month will work on writing informational paragraphs about different kinds of frog adaptations. Students are excited to include these in their Freaky Frog books. In math, students continued practicing solving multiplication and division story problems. In addition, students practiced using a fact they know to solve an unknown fact. F

 This month will work on writing informational paragraphs about different kinds of frog adaptations. Students are excited to include these in their Freaky Frog books. In math, students continued practicing solving multiplication and division story problems. In addition, students practiced using a fact they know to solve an unknown fact. For example, if I know 9x10=90, then I just need to take away 9 to find 9x9. In Foundations, we began a new unit on prefixes and using the meaning of prefixes to figure out what words mean. For example, if I know “dis” means “not”, then “disconnected” means “not connected”.

Important Dates:

  • March 16 (room 202) / March 23 (room 203) - Field Trip to MIT 
  • March 24: Frog Festival Publishing Party - Save the date! It will most likely be from 2-3pm.

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

3rd Grade

  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.  

1st Grade

3rd Grade

Kindergarten

 

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

Preschool K0-K1

Kindergarten

 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. 

Preschool K0-K1

Preschool K0-K1

Preschool K0-K1

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. 

Meet Our Staff

Principal Chery

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. 

Dedicated Educators

Our professional staff demonstrates our commitment to social justice by empowering our students. 

Pre-K Pollinators (K0-K1 )

Shandolyn Anderson

Early Educator in room 101

Noreen Kelley

Early educator room 103

Denise Devaney

I am the Children's Yoga Specialist And Surround care paraprofessional in room 104. BTU representative and Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Coordinator. 

Meaghan Lawlor

Grade K0-K1

Inclusion Teacher room 102

Pricilla Casna

Early Educator room 104 

Ms. Rakeea Gardner

Surround Care para in room 101

Melissa Henderson

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 


Team Kindergarten

Stephanie Lividini

Early Educator in room 106

Chris Wade

Enjoys spontaneous fun adventures

Amelia Chase

Early educator room 105

Alexa Holloway

Surround care para  in room 106


First Grade Squad

Danielle Hamilton

 First grade teacher at Lee Academy. I love helping students discover the reader inside them!

Mr. Anthony

A Lee Academy veteran who we all love and adore

Lindsey Aviles

Early educator room 107

Jackie Stroud

Surround Care para  for the first grade team, currently helping out with our littles. 

Kathryn Wilcox

Language & Literacy Interventionist


2nd Grade Warriors

Cassandra Rousseau

Early Educator in room 205

Sandra Centeio

Co- Educator in room 205

Amy Gebo

Early Educator in room 204

Lizbeth Ruiz

Co-Educator in room 204

Paula Morgado

LATF

ESL for 2nd grade & K2


3rd Grade Powers

Rose Frank

Early Educator in room 203

David Hampton

Surround care super hero in room 203

Tanera Martin-Williams

Early Educator  in room 202

Sylvia Mendez

Surround care para in room 202


Admin & Support Heroes

Keri Purple

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.

Jen Mederios-Crabbe

School Psychologist 

Jasmin Torrejon-Chu

School Social Worker 

Giovanna Tovar (Ms. Govi)

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. 

Brian Lobue

 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. 

Marc Ableson

Science teacher former 3rd grade hero 

Ms. Hart

Physical Education intstructor

Zoraida (Ms. Z)

School secretary

Jabarah Harley

SP/L

Bill Woods

School Custodian 

Bee-lieve n yourself

Our Outdoor Classroom

Test Your Balance

Beautiful Plant Holders

Beautiful Plant Holders

Beautiful Plant Holders

Beautiful Plant Holders

Beautiful Plant Holders

Green spaces are in

Beautiful Plant Holders

Green spaces are in

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