Janney fulfills its mission with a wide variety of programs that
address the unique qualities of all its students. School-wide
academic approaches include Balanced Literacy and the
implementation of Reading and Writing Workshop and Everyday
Math. School-wide climate and culture approaches include
Responsive Classroom and Positive Behavior Support. Balanced
literacy is an instructional approach that is rooted in the
belief that teachers grow great readers and writers through a
gradual release structure where there is time for explicit
teaching of strategies and skills, teacher modeling, and
students’ practice and application to their independent work
using authentic texts. Our students are given opportunities to
interact with and comprehend multiple types of texts of their
own choosing and are just right for them. In Reader’s Workshop,
students are taught reading strategies through modeling by the
teacher and have opportunities to practice and apply the
strategies to their own books. Students experience explic