This program seeks to maximize social opportunities for special education students and mainstream students by matching them in one-to-one friendships. Special education students are often socially isolated from mainstream students and mainstream students frequently...

This program identifies struggling readers in first grade and works with them on a one-to-one basis. Special books (levels 1-20) are used. Students progress through the various levels sequentially as they gain reading skills and strategies. Intensive early reading...

This is a special program for 3rd graders to improve fluency - the ability to read text with speed, accuracy and proper expression. This will increase students’ comprehension and communication skills and will allow them to better relate ideas expressed in text to...

Provides funding for a dedicated mobile computer lab and related lab-interface equipment for the science classes. Incorporates the “Modeling Method” of teaching. Use of this technology allows students to be directly involved in scientific experiments and to see...

Provides funding to determine if using modern technology will enhance the rigor and relevance of the 8th grade mathematics curriculum. Technology utilized will be “powerpoint, internet, and real-world film clips.” One-half of the 8th grade class (125 students) will...

Following the very successful December 2006 production of the cutting-edge play, NORMAL, the Advanced Theater Class will be creating a professionally recorded original cast CD. Emmy Award-winning composer of the original score, Tom Kochan, will be assisting in the...

Kindergarten and 1st grade students will create actual hard-cover books using the computer program, iPhoto. With the help of parent volunteers and teachers, students will create a story and then write their own text and take their own photographs. This project will...

Provides funding for a supervised summer reading program targeted at low-level readers who have completed 4th grade. Research shows that students who continue to read over the summer will better maintain their reading skills. These students will then be at a closer...