I am a school psychologist and I run a CDS for grades 9-12 with two teachers and two classrooms. An ongoing issue here has been collaboration/team teaching to reduce the number of teacher preps, provide a conference period, and give teachers an opportunity to either teach to their area of interest/expertise.

 

I would like to know how other high school Community Day Schools schedule their teachers and their daily programs. I'd appreciate any ideas anyone out there has.

 

Connie Luizzi

cluizzi@hbuhsd.org

Ihave used the following site for many years.  This site has hundreds of movies we can use in the classroom.  The website also supplies discussion questions, lesson plans and activities for students.  This site also has partnered with Character Counts! and allows users to search for movies under the six pillars.  There is a minimal cost for the year of $11.00

 

www.teachwithmovies.org

 

any questions please email me at:

 

jgarcia71@yahoo.com

Is anyone using (and happy with)  instructional materials for 6-8th grade students that have helped raise student test scores?   Ideally, I'd like programs for math and language arts that will allow for whole class instruction coupled with independent or small group remediation.  Access to computers isn't a problem.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hi All,

I am looking at Accelerated Math for our 5-8 grades. Are any of you using it in your CDS programs? If so, how did you justify it with administration who may want all students in the grade level textbooks instead of using Acc. Math. Has this program made your teaching easier?

Thanks

Sally Gilstrap