Achieving Excellence in Readers Workshop
To help accommodate the needs of all students, some classrooms incorporate a Regular Education Teacher and a Special Education Teacher in the same room at the same time. This grant augments the current classroom library by incorporating addition texts and book club novels to help differentiate instruction.
Salt Brook School Garden
The school garden, introduced in 2013 has been a huge success. This grant provides the gardeners with an additional plot of land including herbs and vegetable pots.
Social Stories for Special Kids
The Social Stories Project promotes the development of social skills in young children through the use of videos, books, apps and comprehension questions to meet the varied needs of children with special needs. This concrete approach allows for increased repetition and exposure to numerous social situations, provides clear examples of what the student should expect […]
Mulit-Sensory Approaches to Work Study and Reading
The multi-sensory teaching approach to reading is based upon the idea that some students learn best when the material they are given is presented to them in a variety of modalities. This method uses movement (kinesthetic), touch (tactile), visual and auditory modalities to help students read, write and spell. This project aims to support all […]
Promoting STEM through the use of Rockets
Providing various equipment, students design, build, test and modify rockets while investigating a variety of physics. In addition, the rocket design activities can be adapted to address additional physics concepts and incorporate the 3D printer as students design and modify their rockets.