This week is Read-a-thon Week!! NCES PTO is excited to announce its primary fundraiser for the 2025-2026 school year. The exciting part is the school keeps 100% of all donations! The funds raised will support school wide needs and this year 50% of the funds each grade level receives will be dedicated for that grade level to use! How does it work? Families and friends are encouraged to make a pledge and encourage literacy. Students will have one week to collect pledges before a school wide reading event on Friday, September 19th. During their scheduled reading time, students will read or be read to for a total of 60 minutes. A huge thank you to those family members who have already participated!! We are almost halfway to our goal! Juliana's family are top donators thus far and Ms. Strum's class is in the lead!

Please review the information below for details and information on how to set up your child's fundraising page. Contact PTO at narcoosseeelempto@gmail.com with any questions. 

You may have heard your student or teachers of your student mention something called "BCU" time. BCU stands for Bear Cub University. This is an amount of scheduled time in the master schedule set aside for academic and/or behavioral intervention, support, and enrichment. This time is in alignment with the Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS) which is a framework to provide all students with the best opportunities to succeed in school. MTSS is defined as “the practice of providing high quality instruction and interventions matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about changes in instruction or goals and applying child response data to important educational decisions (Batsche et al, 2005).”

MTSS has three levels, or tiers, of instruction and support, all aimed at giving teachers a streamlined way to provide the best instruction to all students.

We use the universal student data (from PM1 and other assessment data) to make initial decisions on supports or enrichment for students. Feel free to communicate with your child's teacher about the supports or enrichment your child is receiving during this time.