Tools of the Mind is our way of jump starting students into the believe that "I am a learner." The 'core muscles' developed in this curriculum help break down the fear of learning that often accompanies children of poverty. The Class Observation tool helps measure our impact on strengthening the set of early childhood learning behaviors crucial for long term school achievement.
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TS Gold |
Teaching Strategies Gold is one of the best tools available for:
TS Gold blends ongoing, real-life, observational tools across all areas of development and learning with intentional, focused, performance-assessment tasks for selected literacy and numeracy objectives. It includes objectives that are related to children's learning dispositions, such as attending, engaging, persisting and showing curiosity, motivation, flexibility and inventiveness in thinking. In addition, this assessment recognizes that young children’s development is uneven, that it changes rapidly, and that development and learning are interrelated, and overlapping. [Data link.] |
PBIS BoQ |
The Bench Marks of Quality reinforces the level of implementation of Positive Behavior & Intervention Supports program elements. Our goal of reaching 70% on each benchmark indicator of excellence achievement in the research-based intervention program.
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