Coach’s Corner
NEST Coach
Mrs. Catanzariti
As a NEST Coach, I have had the privilege of working with students with diverse learning styles for 15 years within an inclusive educational setting. My primary goal is to empower students to succeed in mainstream classes by providing them with the necessary support. I plan to leverage my expertise to create a comprehensive support system that benefits not just students, but also teachers and parents.
Mathematics Coach
MS. Shamima Hossain
Here at P.S.151K, we work together to advance and deepen the math learning of all of our students. We are excited to welcome your family as partners in that work. Please see the link below to learn more about ways that you can support your child's math learning at home.
Do you want to know more about what your child is learning in math class? Follow the links below. Tip sheets provide an overview of each topic and include suggested strategies and models, key vocabulary, connections to previous learning, and tips for how you can support your child’s learning at home.
We’d like to introduce you to the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum. This problem-based curriculum makes rigorous elementary school mathematics accessible to all learners. In a problem-based curriculum, students spend most of their time in class working on carefully crafted and sequenced problems. Teachers help students understand the problems, ask questions to push their thinking, and orchestrate discussions to be sure that the mathematical takeaways are clear. Learners gain a rich and lasting understanding of mathematical concepts and procedures and experience applying this knowledge to new situations. Our scholars frequently collaborate with their classmates—they talk about math, listen to each other’s ideas, justify their thinking, and critique the reasoning of others. They gain experience communicating their ideas both verbally and in writing, developing skills that will serve them well throughout their lives.
This kind of instruction may look different from what you experienced in your own math education. Current research says that students need to be able to think flexibly in order to use mathematical skills in their lives. Flexible thinking relies on understanding concepts and making connections between them. Over time, students gain the skills and the confidence to independently solve problems that they've never seen before. We are excited to be able to support your students in their journey toward knowing, using, and enjoying mathematics.
Multilingual Coach
Ms. Alliers
At PS151K my role as the multilingual coach is providing the following supports for our staff:
Coaching and Modeling: Working directly with our teachers through co-planning, demonstrating high-impact instructional strategies, co-teaching, and providing personalized feedback.
Focus on Best Practices: Ensuring that our teachers implement culturally and linguistically responsive teaching practices and effective strategies for language development and academic achievement across all content areas.
Standards Implementation: Supporting our staff in understanding and applying language development standards to their curriculum.
For our students my role is to improve outcomes for all of our Multilingual Learners:
Scaffolding Instruction: Helping teachers use strategies that make rigorous, grade-level content accessible for our students at all levels of language proficiency without simplifying the content.
Building on Assets: Encouraging an "assets-oriented" mindset that capitalizes our students' existing linguistic and cultural resources rather than focusing on deficits.
My goal is to always advocate for and support the implementation of instruction that meets our students' academic, linguistic, and social-emotional needs.
