Student Support Services

The English Learner Program (EL) at Greenleaf provides instruction and support to students who are learning English. The focus of language instruction for students centers around reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

At Greenleaf, we celebrate multilingualism. We welcome the diversity and value the unique language experience our EL students bring to our school. There are more than 18 different language spoken in our school community!

Students in our EL program come with their own individual abilities. The goal of our program is to help students reach their full potential. We encourage parents to continue reading and supporting their child’s first language skills at home, as first language literacy helps build and deepen English language literacy. 

If you have any questions about our EL program, or about ways to support your child at home, please call, email, or visit us.

The Gifted and Talented (GT) Program extends educational challenges for intellectually and academically gifted students.

Gifted and talented children are those students with outstanding abilities and capable of higher performance when compared to others of similar age, experience and environment. They have significantly different educational needs from their peers and require educational differentiation as a regular part of their school day to ensure they reach their full potential. District 196 uses multiple criteria to help identify gifted and talented children.

Greenleaf Elementary provides a special education program for eligible students. All special education students are mainstreamed into other classrooms for part of the day.

Evaluations for special education are available through Greenleaf and are done through a comprehensive process with a student's classroom teacher.

Title One 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. Basic Skills is a similar support program but is state-funded. All Greenleaf Title One and Basic Skills 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. Most students will get Title One/Basic Skills instruction five days a week. Students are re-evaluated throughout the year and may exit service if adequate progress has been made.

Parents are an important part of the Title One/Basic Skills team and their involvement with their child's education can be a key to their success.