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Sherman

School code number: 823
Grade Level: K-5
Hours: 7:50AM - 1:50PM

1651 Union Street, San Francisco, CA, 94123
Neighborhood: Marina
Phone: (415) 749-3530
Fax: (415) 749-3433
School Loop: sherman-sfusd-ca.schoolloop.com
Principal: Sara Florence Shenkan

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      Sherman has an extraordinary teaching staff of 20 classroom teachers, supported by Reading Recovery, Technology, Resource Specialist, Science, Instrumental Music, Librarian, PE, Sand Tray, Choral Music, Speech Teachers, Nutrition, Learning Consultant, Garden Coordinator and Paraprofessionals. We believe all children are brilliant—and challenge all students to achieve their highest potential. Our curriculum includes science, technology, reading, writing, and math. We provide all students with support and encouragement to attain their personal and academic goals. We empower students to be learners by creating the space for all students to have a voice in the classroom and analyze and think creativity and critically. The arts are an essential, rigorous and joyful part of the core curriculum, enabling students to access their multiple intelligences, educating the whole child and improving their voices, listening skills, body control, and problem-solving abilities. Sherman provides many enriching artistic experiences such as dance and movement, visual arts, choral music, hip hop dance, and keyboarding.

      Students in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades participate in the Mind Research Institute's Gigi program. We are fortunate to have a model garden and garden coordinator. Students explore and test out their science hypotheses in the garden. Our student body's excitement for learning grows through their experiences in the garden. Many students are eager to come to school simply to track the growth of their plants. At Sherman, we focus on what's best for kids by building trusting and evolving relationships among the staff, families, and students. We prize the home/school collaboration and realize that with communication and support, students and their families will attain academic, social, and emotional goals. Sherman strives to include all of the members of our diverse student body and their families in the school community.

      School Tours

      Fridays, 9:00am

      Uniforms

      None

      Before School Programs

      7:30am

      After School Programs

      Free ExCEL program for grades 2-5 until 5:00pm. Breakfast starting at 7:30am

      Special Education Programs

      • Designated Instructional Services
      • Resource Specialist Program
      • Special Day Class/Mild/Moderate-Intensive Language & Learning

      Resource Specialist Program, Special Day Class/Mild/Moderate-Intensive Language & Learning (K-2, 3-5), Designated Instructional Services

      Language Programs

      English Plus Pathway

      Reading Recovery, Reading Partners, Afterschool Intervention

      School Day Academic Enrichment

      Keyboarding, computers, art, music, gardening, hip hop, orchestra, ballet, nutrition classes, gymnastics

      Opportunities for Parental Involvement

      Parents are involved as volunteers in the classrooms, field trips, staffing the library, elected to the School Site Council and the English Language Committee, Green Schoolyard Project, PTA, chairing many events of the school, as well as fundraising. They are essential partners in supervising their child's homework completion, reading to them and listening to them read aloud. If they are not English language speakers, we ask that they borrow taped books from the library so that their child hears listening vocabulary at a higher level than their reading and speaking vocabulary, which is necessary for them to develop speaking and reading fluency. They participate in SST (Student Success Team) meetings which are held every Wednesday mornings and participate in Parent-Teacher Conferences