AP Spanish Language Class at Truckee High School is growing. We hope to be able to offer this class on a yearly basis rather than every other year. This class prepares students to take the Spanish Language and Culture Advanced Placement Exam each May. This particular year, 2014, students will

"It's all about practice. AR encourages substantial differentiated reading practice to create strong readers. Based on each student's independent reading level, AR helps teachers set personalized goals for each student, and guide students to books difficult enough to keep them challenged, but not so difficult to cause frustration. In addition

The objective of the poets-in-residence program is to provide a poetic outlet for students to build critical thinking skills, academic and personal confidence, creative writing skills, as well as a greater understanding of the self in relation to community and society.

There are three main objectives for this project. Primarily, iPads in the ELD classroom will increase accessibility of technology to our EL population. Secondarily, this technology will enhance our district adopted Avenues curriculum and aide to the implementation of California Common Core Standards. Finally, this project will easily differentiate activities

Our objective is always to support high levels of learning for all students. Research has shown that soundfield amplification systems are the most cost-effective technology for faciliteing classroom listening, and therefore increasing student achievement. Students must be able to hear instruction in order to learn, and often the interference noise

To increase all students ability to achieve at high levels by maximizing their ability to attend to instruction in all instructional areas on campus.

This program will give families home support for our dual-language program in reading and language development throughout the school year. It will increase fluency by giving students quality Spanish books to practice at home with. It will provide books for this year, but we are hoping to re-use most of

By incorporating the Shurley English supplemental program, students will have a deeper understanding of the foundations of grammar concepts. This knowledge will transfer to all other curricular areas as they incorporate their new-found skills elsewhere. Please refer to the atttached documentation for full details.

ELD students will be able to practice reading fluency by recording their voices. Students will also be able to create presentations which will be recorded (video and audio) to evaluate fluency, vocabulary and speaking skills. As per California State ELD standards, students will develop oral communication that allows for social