Students will engage in their language arts curriculum using a Readers and Writers Workshop approach which provides a highly organized classroom structure where students take the lead within learning centers. Learning centers may include a poetry center, an arts center, a writing center, a drama center to provide students with depth of understanding of the piece of literature or the theme in their unit of study. The language arts curriculum will also include an Author and Genre Study that will provide exposure to diverse literature.  Literacy Navigator and Mathematics Navigator are two intervention programs that will be used in this school to help students who are not currently meeting grade level expectations and just as importantly to stop the achievement gap before it begins.  The Rituals and Routines classroom management approach will be built into the instructional system to ensure that all students are engaged in productive learning.  

Within this new school model a rigorous middle school curriculum will be developed in grades 6-8 that overlays a Journalism theme, where students will focus on developing strong writing skills. This will serve as advanced preparation for students who want to apply to Hartford’s Journalism and Media High School for grades 9-12.

 

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