Special Programs at Jefferson
Vanguard Neighborhood G/T Program
The Vanguard Neighborhood G/T Program's focus is to serve the top achieving students on our campus with a differentiated curriculum by modifying the general academic program in depth, complexity, and pacing. The G/T program serves students in grades Kindergarten (beginning March 1) and grades 1 - 5.
Special Education Classes at Jefferson
Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities (PPCD): This program is designed to serve children with disabilities, ages three through five, who have been identified as being at risk of not achieving academic or life skills without intervention
Life Skills: Self - contained classes that are organized around functional academic instruction and classroom routines that facilitate the development of daily living skills. The daily schedules reflect the overall activities of the school as well as the classroom’s unique activities and daily routines.
Resource: Students who qualify attend general-education classes for most of the day and is scheduled to receive instructional and/or support services from a Special Education teacher in one or more academic areas in the Special Education classes.
Band
City Jazz Kidz is a performing Jazz Ensemble of Elementary Students from The Davis Feeder System. The students are in grades 3 through 5.
City Jazz Kidz is directed by Mark Holter. Our goal is provide these students with a well-rounded musical education at a young age. We teach the kids how to improvise by teaching them classic jazz literature. The songs we play have evolved throughout jazz history as standard repertoire. We use warmups that include basic styles, jazz articulation, chord-scale relationship and jazz-vocabulary building exercises. We encourage the kids to memorize these songs.
Robotics
The Jefferson Robotics program was created at Jefferson Elementary to have fun and at the same time, learn through science. Working together they have created some interesting robots and simple machines using basic and intermediate science and physic concepts. Visit their webpage to to find pictures and video of some of their projects: The Robotic Jaguars
