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Charter School of New Castle (CSNC) has three academic goals:
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Science
Students actively engage in science investigations using the FOSS science kits. The FOSS program materials are designed to meet the challenge of providing meaningful science education for all students in diverse American classrooms and to prepare them for life in the 21st century.
Social Studies
CSNC’s social studies program is project-based with many opportunities for students to actively engage in lessons about history, geography, economics, and civics.
English Language Arts (ELA)
The ELA curriculum is Walpole - Book Worms, Guided Reading and for Grades 3-8th Engage NY. Book Worm is an Evidence-based pedagogy Designed for differentiation and built to increase vocabulary acquisition. It is created around full texts on multiple topics and straightfoward differentiation tool. Guided reading is an instructional approach that involves a teacher. working with a small group of students who demonstrate similar reading behaviors and can all read similar levels of texts. The text is easy enough for students to read with your skillful support. Engage NY Lessons are adaptable to allow for teacher preference and flexibility so that classroom instruction can meet students' needs while maintaining alignment with the Common Core learning standards.
Math Curriculum - Go Math!
Charter School of New Castle Grades K-8 uses the Engage NY. Engage NY Lessons are adaptable to allow for teacher preference and flexibility so that classroom instruction can meet students' needs while maintaining alignment with the Common Core learning standards. Math modules include a significant number of problem sets so that teachers can provide students with plenty of opportunities to practice and apply their knowledge. Educators can help students achieve deep conceptual knowledge by asking them to complete selected problems that have been designed in a sequential, thoughtful order.
CSNC teachers differentiate instruction based on carefully collected data to insure each student is receiving rigorous and relevant lessons. In addition, each student participates in RTI (Response to Intervention) to maximize instructional time and give extra help, or enrichment, where it is needed.
Charter School of New Castle follows all State of Delaware standards and Common Core standards.
CSNC teachers differentiate instruction based on carefully collected data to insure each student is receiving rigorous and relevant lessons. In addition, each student participates in RTI (Response to Intervention) to maximize instructional time and give extra help, or enrichment, where it is needed.
Charter School of New Castle follows all State of Delaware standards and Common Core standards.
Common Core Standards
Building on the excellent foundation of standards states have laid, the Common Core State Standards are the first step in providing our young people with a high-quality education. It should be clear to every student, parent, and teacher what the standards of success are in every school.
Teachers, parents and community leaders have all weighed in to help create the Common Core State Standards. The standards clearly communicate what is expected of students at each grade level. This will allow our teachers to be better equipped to know exactly what they need to help students learn and establish individualized benchmarks for them. The Common Core State Standards focus on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well—and to give students the opportunity to master them.
With students, parents and teachers all on the same page and working together for shared goals, we can ensure that students make progress each year and graduate from school prepared to succeed in college and in a modern workforce.
Teachers, parents and community leaders have all weighed in to help create the Common Core State Standards. The standards clearly communicate what is expected of students at each grade level. This will allow our teachers to be better equipped to know exactly what they need to help students learn and establish individualized benchmarks for them. The Common Core State Standards focus on core conceptual understandings and procedures starting in the early grades, thus enabling teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well—and to give students the opportunity to master them.
With students, parents and teachers all on the same page and working together for shared goals, we can ensure that students make progress each year and graduate from school prepared to succeed in college and in a modern workforce.
R.T.I.
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students identified as having learning and behavior challenges. The RTI process begins with high-quality instruction and universal screening of all children in their classrooms. Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their rate of learning. These servicesare provided by a variety of personnel, including classroom teachers, special educators, and specialists. Progress is closely monitored to assess both the learning rate and level of performance of individual students. Educational decisions about the intensity and duration of interventions are based on individual student response to instruction. RTI is designed for use when making decisions in both general education and special education that is driven by progress monitoring data, benchmarking data, and classroom assessment data.
Academic Performance
Charter School of New Castle has consistently met AYP or annual yearly progress for the past three school years.
CSNC received an overall rating of Meets the Standard on the Annual Performance Framework for the 2012-2013 school year.
CSNC received an overall rating of Meets the Standard on the Annual Performance Framework for the 2012-2013 school year.