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Sign On to National School Choice Week 2012!
January 16, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
National School Choice Week, a grass roots effort, will be held this year from January 22-28. Activities and events sponsored throughout the nation will focus on effective education options for all children and support of school choice options in all states. This is an opportunity to educate local school boards and state legislatures about the need for education reforms that empower parents to choose the best educational environments for their children, whether those environments are public schools, public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.
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Online classrooms: More teachers ride virtual circuit
December 19, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
The students are sitting in two different classrooms in two different schools in Arkansas.
Their teacher is working in front of a computer screen, talking to them in real-time via online video from a tiny upstairs bedroom of his Rock Island home.
This is a form of online learning, or distance education, which people mostly associate with college-level coursework.
Online teaching, like what Chapman does, is rare for kindergarten through 12th-grade education systems in this region, but it’s growing more popular elsewhere across the U.S. and the rest of the world.
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Hamburg School District: Report to the Public
September 7, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
The Ashley County Learning Academy at Fountain Hill is a consortium between Hamburg and Crossett School Districts. This will be its sixth year of operation. Last school year it served approximately one hundred and nine students from the two school districts. There will be slots this year for eighty students. Currently twenty four students are enrolled. The ACLA had fourteen students to receive their high school diploma, eight to receive their GED and several score proficient on the state bench mark test during the 2010-2011 school year.
The goal of the Academy is to place students in an environment that reduces the influence of factors that prevent them from learning and to provide positive support for academic success while promoting and encouraging good social skills. The staff consists of the director, counselor, four core content area teachers, two instructional aides, two mental health workers, secretary, custodian, and two cafeteria workers. Sammy Grime is our new addition to the ALE staff. He is in his second year as a science teacher.
Curriculum is delivered in classrooms in the four core subject areas by highly qualified teachers. Electives, credit recovery, preparation for the GED, and Virtual High School along with small group tutoring are also offered. This will be the third year for the JAG Program (Jobs for Arkansas Graduates). This course will provide an opportunity for students to receive much needed information and understanding of the workforce.
Social Skills are taught by each home room teacher five days a week using the ARTS Program (Aggression Regression Training). Each week students are taught a new word in social skills and learn to apply it through scenarios and by examples.
A Boot Camp is located on the Fountain Hill Campus but is not a part of the ALE Program. Boot Camp serves both school districts by providing a structured environment for disruptive and disorderly students in grades 7-12. Last year it served a combine population of twelve students from both districts.
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