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Meet the Team: Tyler Winterstein

Tyler Winterstein, Behavior Specialist In the morning, my role is mainly focused on transportation. Throughout the day, I work with every student and assist them on refocusing their behaviors. This can take many forms for each student, but overall I support the entire school. It's pretty simple. The kids. I truly love working with our kids. Recently, I had a student that was physically violent with other staff and causing damage to property. Through hard work by myself and our entire staff, that student's behaviors have drastically improved. they now [...]

2019-01-31T21:34:13-05:00January 31st, 2019|

Learning Made Fun with Sierra Academy

NBC 12News in Arizona spoke with Lenora King, director of the Sierra Academy of Scottsdale about our staffs passion for our students, our individualized approach to education, and what's new and exciting at Sierra Academy!. “We put our kids at the forefront of everything we do." –Lenora King, director of the Sierra Academy of Scottsdale Watch the video

2019-02-26T11:55:04-05:00January 30th, 2019|

Student Spotlight: Ethan J.

Ethan is one of our 10th grade students here at CSD. He strives for greatness everyday not matter the subject, academic or social you can always count on Ethan to offer a free hand and especially an idea. Ethan loves history, you can ask him any question about World War II and he’ll have a correct answer. When Ethan has a break from class work he loves to read a good James Patterson novel. The media center here at CSD is running low on new things for him to read needless to say. Ethan always comes in everyday [...]

2019-02-02T21:51:57-05:00January 29th, 2019|

Teacher Feature: Ms. Kavney

When it comes to encouraging collaboration, assigning fun activities or planning new and exciting sensory breaks, Ms. Kavney does it all plus so much more. Ms. Kavney is one of our Elementary teachers and continues to set the standards high for our whole staff! Starting in July 2018, Ms. Kavney was quick to embrace the point sheet system and create her own unique classroom culture. Not only can we count on a strong academic presence in room 101, but we can also count on seeing students who are on-level and thriving in our program. We can always count [...]

2019-02-02T22:21:06-05:00January 28th, 2019|

A Major Turnaround

Donnell T. is a 14yr old 8th grade student at High Road Lower School in Lanham, MD. Donnell has been a student at High Road for 3 years. Donnell has made a great deal of progress in a number of areas including, attendance, behavior, and grades. In the past, Donnell would often come late or miss school altogether. However, now Donnell regularly comes to school on time and ready to work. In terms of his behavior, Donnell behavior had previously shown a great deal of aggression (including fighting) and disrespect to staff and students alike. Now, not only [...]

2019-02-02T21:55:47-05:00January 28th, 2019|

Meet the Team: Brandon Galvan

Brandon Galvan, 1:1 Teacher's Aide Thank you to Aurora Day School Student Journalist Megan for conducting the following interview with Brandon. Mr. Brandon enjoys working with kids and hearing their stories. He enjoys the calm and enjoyable environment. He is a 1:1 aide and loves teaching his student new things. He also, enjoys helping and caring for his students. Mr. Brandon experiences new things with his kids. Every day is a new day for him. He shared a quote from his Grandfather that resonates with him deeply, “This is [...]

2019-01-31T21:43:54-05:00January 28th, 2019|

IT Talent

Briana C., is a very bright, and inspiring, twelfth grade student who attends the High Road Academy of Lanham, MD. Briana is currently enrolled in the Computer Repair class, at Prince George’s Community College. Briana, is one of those students who catches on very quickly, when it comes to electronics. In fact, she learns her lessons so quickly, that she even assists the instructor in helping with the rest of the class. The instructor Mr. Hall, says about Briana “I can’t believe how fast this young lady catches on, it just seems to come so natural for her”. [...]

2019-02-02T21:37:35-05:00January 26th, 2019|

Meet the Team: Monica K.

Monica K., Mental Health Specialist After earning my BA in Psychology and working in a psychiatric hospital, I decided I wanted to focus more on at risk youth, especially the younger population. It's really important for our students that I come up with new and exciting things for them. We do a lot of creative art projects for the students and incorporate nature walks, yoga, meditation, and bring new and relaxing activities to their daily schedule. I appreciate when I see students that I have worked with coming back to the school and [...]

2019-02-11T14:04:25-05:00January 25th, 2019|

University of Oregon Ed. Research Lab Partners With Catapult Learning

In EdWeek Market Brief, CEO of Catapult Learning Jeff Cohen as well as Hank Fien, the director of the University of Oregon's Center on Teaching and Learning recently discussed the newly formed Institute for Scaling Evidence-Based Education. Initially, the partnership will focus on ramping up the reach of the center’s Enhanced Core Reading Instruction program. The reading program focuses on using explicit and systematic instruction, teacher modeling, practice, and review. Catapult Learning will provide professional development for the reading program, support with implementation, and other work, such as marketing it to schools. But over time, both Fien and Catapult Learning [...]

2019-01-25T09:53:47-05:00January 25th, 2019|

Meet the Team: Jacqueline Carvajal

Jacqueline Carvajal, Assistant Teacher Throughout the day, there can be many challenges, but I like to get through it the best I can, with a positive attitude. As an assistant teacher that are many roles that I play. That can include planning activities and counseling students to make better decisions or helping with cooking or cleaning up the classroom. I have a student in class who is starting to change his behavior bit by bit. At first, he started to follow directions, then he started to ask for help when he needed it [...]

2019-03-27T11:39:39-04:00January 24th, 2019|