Reference Point

What is Reference Point?  

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Reference Point is a proprietary system that provides a comprehensive educational portfolio for each child at Daniel Island Academy.

 

Families utilize Reference Point to provide a map of their child’s educational and developmental strengths and progression. This information is updated and followed throughout the year, and year-to-year, as they transition to the next classroom. In addition, it serves as a basis for home activities and for future academic or developmental understanding for years to come.

 

Teachers utilize Reference Point for assessing children’s developmental information to create an individual plan to support the developmental goals for each child. It integrates all areas of the school’s curriculum and serves as a compass to guide and enhance the learning styles of each child, and the classroom as a whole. Tools such as milestone growth checks, parent reports, observations, and parent conferences, promote open communications between Daniel Island Academy staff and families.

 

Reference Point helps families chart the course of individualized educational instruction for their child. Its powerful effect is in how teachers, armed with the best information and programming, can work with parents to create the most effective educational and developmental plan for their child to help them reach their full potential.

 

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What is the Mission of Reference Point?

  • Involve all children with different learning styles, diverse backgrounds, and individual strengths and weaknesses

  • Use research based tools such as the Denver II Rating Scales and The Creative Curriculum® to document a child’s progress over time

  • Utilize parent information and family engagement in dialogue on how to best support a child’s strengths and developmental goals

  • Retrieve important information about developmental milestones that are matched to the appropriate developmental goals

  • Assist teachers in making instructional decisions related to their classroom programs that provide a range of opportunities to match the interests and needs of each child

  • Identify a child’s strengths, interests, and potential that needs enhancement and strengthening

  • Provide families with information to help them better understand the classroom curriculum and their child’s learning potential

  • Offer an easily understandable framework for collecting and assessing developmental information that is consistent across all classrooms and with all teachers

  • Provide families with valuable developmental information related to their child’s individual potential in all areas

  • Give families comprehensive information on their child for educational transitions, medical or developmental referrals, and extracurricular interests

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