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aboutInstructional Methods
Kennedy Charter Public School encourages life-long learning. Our faculty and staff participate in staff development and training throughout the school year and during the summer. Kennedy has partnered with Empowering Engagement to provide year long training to enhance teaching and benefit student performance.

The goal of Empowering Engagement is to provide a sequential learning structure that employs 4 proven steps for successful student engagement, classroom productivity, and powerful learning. The research-based steps include:

Engage
bullet Brain Research
bullet Helping participants/students feel welcome
bullet Beginning with a common goal - empower learning
bullet Temperament
bullet Tangible Structures for Success (social expectations and agreements, procedures)

Facilitate Explore
bullet Processing strategies bullet Building experiences
bullet Involving all participants bullet Making meaning
bullet Simultaneous response bullet Sensory input
bullet Cooperative learning bullet Lesson designs with the brain in mind
bullet Interactive tools    

Wrap-up
bullet Tools for wrapping up
bullet Making meaning for storage

aboutEach of the steps includes tools and approaches to help the teacher conduct meaningful learning. Mears Consulting provides training, coaching, small group planning, and one-on-one consultations for Educators, Administrators, and Peer Coaches. Each specified group differs by the tools created and used to provide productivity in learning.



Curriculum 2010
Math
English
Science
History
Spanish
Technology
Arts


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