NEXT GEN
REINFORCEMENT
We’re committed to the support of cognitive child development which is central to every students’ success as we transition to Next Generation Learning Standards. Our age appropriate approach fosters lifelong readers, writers, mathematicians, and thinkers.
The curricula used for English Language Arts is aimed to reflect the changing expectations for what is means to be a reader and writer in the 21st century. We not only consider the newest standards themselves, but the standards within the context of the Lifelong Practices of Readers and Writers. Our goal is to bring these practices to life throughout students’ K-5 educational journey.
We want students to build habits that allow them to think, write, speak, and listen to understand. Students are provided resources to read for multiple purposes, including for learning and for pleasure. Our program Mentors champion for students to persevere through challenging, complex texts. With this approach, students will enrich personal language, background knowledge, and vocabulary through reading and communicating with others.
We foster the love for writing some students have and hold every child’s hand until they too discover love for writing by providing opportunities to write often and widely in a variety of formats, using print and digital resources and tools.
During the course of a student’s tenure with us, they’ll experiment and play with language. Students will be tasked with planning, revising, editing, rewriting, and trying new approaches. At its core, students regularly approach writing with preparedness which’ll fuel their confidence to ensure success.
We depend on the learning experience to support and develop mathematical language surrounding the standards. Moreover, we depend on the learning experience to support the transition from the concrete, to the pictorial, to the abstract for standards. Whether students are working independently, in small groups, or in conjunction with a Mentor, we emphasize the importance of multiple representations/solution paths.
Similarly, we ensure sample tasks have multiple entry pints that will be accessible for all learners. We want students to be able to draw on previous grade-level standards and retain current strategies to connect to subsequent grade-level standards.