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2019-2020 CEP Goals
ELA Goal We will develop staff capacity to ensure all students are engaged in authentic literacy tasks and design and implement instruction that addresses deeper learning and enables students to transfer learning. Math Goal We will develop staff capacity to design and implement instruction that addresses deeper learning and enables students to transfer learning. Attendance Goal We will use weekly attendance meetings to develop tiered interventions across school community and targeted interventions for students who are chronically absent. |
Academy One The Exploratory Academy is exclusively for all 6th graders, providing freshmen scholars the opportunity to explore life in Middle school and discover their individual creative potential.
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Academy TwoScholars in 7th and 8th grade have an opportunity to participate in one of two academies: The Academy of Law and Leadership where scholars learn the art of Law and social justice in our global economy.
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Academy ThreeThe Academy of Health, Science and Community Finance allow scholars to engage in rigorous courses in the Sciences, Finance and Advertising. Each academy teaches scholars the Common Core Learning Standards and the instructional shifts in education based on, “The Framework For Great Schools” outlined above, where student achievement is at the core.
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Our Reading Program at MS8
- Students engage in 90 minutes of reading instruction daily
- Student are engaged in station learning
- Extensive libraries in every classroom
- Expeditionary Learning curriculum is used
- Code-X reading supplement
- Ready NY supplement
- Great Leaps – for struggling readers
- Technology infused in lessons
- Students engage in a station rotation model
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Our Math Program at MS8
We utilize the following programs for Math:
- Go Math
- CMP3 math supplements
- 9th Grade Regents classes – Algebra I
- Students engage in 90 minutes of math instruction daily
- Student are engaged in station learning
- Extensive math libraries