Primary Education (K-3)
Welcome to the Jahn School Primary section! This school year, our team will implement the below curriculums.
CURRICULUMS
English Language Arts (ELA)
Students in grades K-2 use Wit & Wisdom for English Language Arts. With Wit & Wisdom, students practice reading, writing, speaking and listening, academic vocabulary, and style and conventions in concert to build holistic ELA knowledge. Each module is crafted around a topic essential for building knowledge, vocabulary, and writing skills. These topics strategically reoccur, empowering students to deepen their understanding of core knowledge while scaffolding to writing and speaking on increasingly complex ideas.
Students in grade 3 use Skyline for English Language Arts. Skyline ELA is the district’s first digital standards-aligned, culturally responsive curriculum. Skyline was developed under the Curriculum Equity Initiative. The Skyline ELA curriculum incorporates contemporary and culturally responsive texts, with over 80% of texts uniquely selected for CPS students.
Math
Students in grades K-3 use enVision for mathematics. EnVision focuses on deep conceptual math understanding aided by visual models, student-centered projects, 3-act tasks, and personalized learning. EnVision offers comprehensive vertical alignment from Kindergarten through 8th grade to ensuring all mathematical standards are taught in the most effective way. EnVision combines problem-based learning with visual learning. Students learn more about math by solving rich, reality-based problems. They gain a deeper, clearer understanding of math concepts with visual models and scaffolds in every lesson.
Science
Students in grades K-3 use Skyline for science. Skyline Science was created in partnership with Amplify Science by taking the foundational curriculum of Amplify Science and customizing for the specific needs and vision of Chicago Public Schools for an equitable, high quality instructional material available to all CPS staff and students. The Skyline science courses are highly interactive, with hands-on learning opportunities that support peer-to-peer interactions and laboratory experiences/digital simulations that allow students to test their hypotheses.
Social Studies
Students in grades K-3 use Skyline for social studies. Skyline Social Science is a curriculum that incorporates proven and powerful social science practices that support student engagement in inquiry-based instruction. The materials are designed to ensure culturally sustaining pedagogical approaches to learning, including how the essential questions (EQs), enduring understandings (EUs), and content are designed to reflect the cultures, identities and lived experiences of students.
Courses offer opportunities for students to identify, gather, analyze, categorize, and evaluate information from multiple, culturally relevant sources/documents while considering the origin, reliability, point of view, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Students in grades K-3 use the Second Step curriculum for SEL lessons. Children need social-emotional skills to thrive both in the classroom and in life.
The Second Step curriculum teaches children techniques to:
- problem behaviors
- promotes school success
- Self-regulation
- a sense of safety and support.
It helps students feel better equipped to manage their own emotions and build positive relationships.
PARTNERSHIPS
In the 2023-24 school year, Jahn's kindergarten team is partnering with Birds in My Neighborhood (BIMN) through the not-for-profit organization Openlands. For 10 years, BIMN has inspired joy, discovery, creativity, and curiosity by introducing birds and outdoor exploration to elementary school children across our region. The program exposes students to nature at a young age and contributes to children's academic achievements, mental health, and social-emotional well-being. We are excited to introduce this learning to our youngest students and connect it to not only our community but also nature centers in the city!
For more information, visit Openland's Birds in My Neighborhood.
PRIMARY EDUCATION TEAM
General Education Teachers
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