2025 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025-2026 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off Information

10:35am CDT

A Fine Foundation: 3rd and 4th grade introduction

Saturday August 16, 2025 10:35am - 11:25am CDT

This session will cover the overarching the goals of the later Grammar years (3rd and 4th grade). Parents will review the Progression book targets for 3rd and 4th grade which encompasses the main learning objectives for this stage. The ancient progymnasmata is introduced in 4th grade as students discover the joy of learning to understand, revise and create effective Fables following the great writers before their time.

Speakers

Stephanie Dace

Campus Coordinator-Cypress Campus, Second Baptist School University-Model

Mrs. Dace has taught 3rd grade for 19 years. She has worked in coordinating roles with student teachers, provided professional development for teachers in her district, and served her first year at SBSUM Cypress in 2023-2024. Mrs. Dace has served as the Director of Awanas, Director... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 10:35am - 11:25am CDT
L330

1st-4th Grade

Company 3rd Grade
Audience 4th Grade

2:30pm CDT

Procedural Math : The Transition from KNOWING your work to SHOWING your work

Saturday August 16, 2025 2:30pm - 3:10pm CDT

J-High Room (SE Lobby)

This session is designed to bring you in the loop as parent partners in the Saxon phase of our mathematics curriculum here at SBSUM. The transition from conceptual to procedual math is a big change for your students, but with the right guidelines, the tools they have been equipped with in Rightstart will begin to look more polished as they are tasked with demonstrating the mental math they have been performing since Pre-K in a more logical manner. Your role as a parent will begin to shift from an mathematics instructor to a format trainer, guiding them in important concepts like proper headings, boxed answers, and labelled units. These guidelines will seem trivial to your student at first, but homework legibility is piviotal in pre-algebra all the way through advanced calculus and statistics.

Speakers

Megan Stivers

Lower School Academic Coordinator - North Campus

Megan Stivers holds a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and a master's degree in educational leadership. Her academic background strongly supports her dedication to academic excellence and leadership in the lower school. Megan has been married to Chase Stivers for ten... Read More →

Saturday August 16, 2025 2:30pm - 3:10pm CDT
J-High Room (SE Lobby)

1st-4th Grade

Company 3rd Grade
Audience 4th Grade
Subject 5th Grade
Area 6th Grade

2025 SBSUM Parent Kick-Off