My School Rocks! 2014-04 Arlene Goldstein | Page 20

7300 Lebanon Road
Charlotte, NC 28227
980-343-3640
http://schools.cms.k12.nc.us/lebanonroadES

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Principal Vincent G. Golden shares the
top 10 things to know about Lebanon
Road Elementary School.

TOP 10

1

LRE emphasizes parent and
community participation. Our family
advocate creates events, programs and
trainings designed to assist parents with
helping their kids grow educationally.

2

LRE has a support group for parents
of autistic children and a parent book
club. Both meet monthly.

3

Roughly 400-500 parents attend our
quarterly lunches. We transform the
gym into a restaurant, and parents and
students enjoy lunch and a lesson.

4

Lebanon Road Young Men’s and
Women’s mentoring groups meet
twice a month for an hour. The students
learn chivalry, appropriate dress codes
and how to be successful young adults.
The program improves students’ selfesteem and academics.

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Cultural Competency: LRE utilizes
literacy, math and writing time to
emphasize different cultures monthly.
The program’s culminating activity
highlights the culture of the month with
an assembly or traveling classrooms.

6

Bookbags of Love: We are fortunate
that our community churches come
together every week to provide a bag
of food for more than 50 children for
weekend meals.

7

Local business professionals
volunteer to tutor our children, serve
as mentors and assist teachers.

8

Terrific Tuesday: We appreciate
students’ improvements. Once
a month, the Matthews Rotary Club
comes in with Chick-fil-A to highlight
a student from each classroom. These
kids are rewarded for their academics,
citizenship, behavior and improvements.
At a small assembly, parents come and
get photos taken with their children.
These photos are displayed at a local
Chick-fil-A and are published in the Mint
Hill Times.

9

LRE has a great family atmosphere.
Teachers and administrative staff
treat each other like family, as do
students and parents.

10

LRE wants students to read for
the love of reading. We received
2,000 books at our annual book drive.