Student Support Staff

Inclusive learning environment

The strategies classrooms in our inclusive learning community, foster high levels of learning in order to support our work of helping students in reaching their full potential. We build communication, functional, social, emotional, and behavioral skills in addition to the core academics, differentiated for individual students.

Resource educators teach students who have been identified through the child study process and meet state criteria for one or more of the following categories:

• Specific Learning Disability (SLD);
• Other Health Disorder (OHD);
• Autism Spectrum (ASD);
• Developmental Cognitive Disability (DCD), or
• Emotional Behavioral Disability (EBD).

The Resource teachers are also consultants to both classroom teachers and parents. They are members of the Child Study team working with the District 196 staff evaluation team on initial evaluations. They work with students in small groups or in the general education classroom through a co-teaching model to provided systematic, direct instruction of academic or social thinking skills.

Occupational therapists work with the Special Education team to enhance and adapt the child's school environment, to help the child benefit from learning activities throughout their school day.

Speech teachers provide services to students who have significant needs in the area of communication. Communication disorders encompass:

• Articulation Disorders: difficulty producing speech sounds
• Language Disorders: difficulty with understanding and expressing thoughts and ideas.
• Voice Disorders: having an inappropriate pitch/quality of voice
• Fluency Disorders or Stuttering: Inappropriate repetitions of sounds, words or phrases

Interventionist Teachers/Coaches work in collaboration with classroom teachers to support students' academic needs. 

Reading Recovery is a program for first graders who are in need of extra help in learning to read and write. Selected students have 30 minutes of individual instruction each day. Reading Recovery teachers have received special training to help children who are beginning readers and writers. The components of the Reading Recovery program are: fluent reading and writing, letter and word recognition, hearing sounds in words, and reading and writing strategies. Parent involvement with the program is critical. Parents must help their children with homework each night.

The School Wide Title l program is a federally funded program whose purpose is to improve achievement in the basic skills of reading and math, and help students succeed in the regular classroom. All Westview Title I teachers are certified teachers. Students in kindergarten through grade five are eligible for these programs. Student selection is based on reading, writing and math assessments, and teacher recommendations.

Students who qualify for these services receive additional instruction in reading or math. Some may receive help in both subjects. This service is either provided to a small group outside the classroom or to an individual student/small group in the regular classroom. Students do not miss special classes such as music, physical education, library, technology, or art.  Students are re-evaluated throughout the year and may exit this service.

Families are an important part of the Title I program and their involvement with their child's education can be a key to their success.

Read our Westview Family Engagement Policy here.

Read the Title 1 Compact between families and Westview here

The English Learner (EL) program is for the instruction of students whose primary language is one other than English. We are committed to helping each EL student acquire proficiency in the English language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Contact: Jessica Roberts