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NEA Foundation has $5,000 Student Achievement Grants to increase academic achievement of students in U.S. public schools. Check out the bottom of the Grant Recipients' page for tips on completing your grant! I can also give you some key ideas to write in your proposal. Get right on this today!
http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/StudentAchievement_Guidelines.htm What Do High Performing Schools Know That We Don't? Everyone is asking the same question regardless of their students' ELA performance on school report cards. I stumbled across this outstanding booklet while researching a guest speaker of our local reading council. Dr. Judith A. Langer, director of the National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement and her colleagues studied typical and outstanding English programs. Their guidelines for success are short (only 16 pages) and well worth the read. So make yourself a cup of tea or coffee and get out a highlighter, this is a good one... Guidelines for Teaching Middle School Students to Read and Write Well: NYS Learning Standards The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate required the provision of specific grade performance indicators in grades 3-8. New York State seized the opportunity and responded with this document which includes specific grade-level indicators for prekindergarten-grade 12. This document combines material from the Early Literacy Guidance: Prekindergarten-Grade 3 and the English Language Arts Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. The English Language Arts Core Curriculum (May 2005) includes Core Performance Indicators that span grade levels and Grade-Specific Indicators that define grade-level expectations of what students need to know and be able to do with skilled instruction. Read and Achieve Books offers this grade-by-grade breakdown as a service. The original document is located on the New York State Education Department (NYSED) web page http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ with other important news and information. English Language Arts Core Curriculum (May 2005) Prekindergarten |
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