Curriculum Assurances of alignment to standards



Course Descriptions and Alignment Assurance

English Language Arts

Provide a Course Name and brief description of the course for each grade level being offered at the proposed school: Example: 2nd grade: Language Arts: This course is designed to help students build grammar skills and continue to build reading and decoding skills with a focus on reading comprehension, sequencing, and literary response. Students will begin to learn elements of the writing process and concentrate on listening and speaking skills.

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Math

Provide a Course Name and brief description of the course for each grade level being offered at the proposed school: Example: 7th grade: Pre-Algebra: This course reinforces arithmetic skills, developing the pre-algebra concepts of variable recognition, signed numbers, formulas and single variable equations. Students will be introduced to algebraic symbolism, simplifying expressions, solutions to elementary equations, and the graphic representations associated with variables.

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Science

Provide a course name and brief description of the course for each grade level being offered at the proposed school: Example: 5th grade: Science: The course concentrates on the concepts of Change and Cause and Effect. Students will learn about the constantly changing Earth's surface. They will investigate physical and chemical changes in matter. They will begin to relate causes for changes with their effects. Students will have opportunity to investigate the effects of various forces, such as magnetism and electricity upon materials.

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Social Studies

Provide a course name and brief description of the course for each grade level being offered at the proposed school: Example: Kindergarten: Social Studies: This course is designed to help students learn about values, ideas, customs, and traditions through folk tales, legends, music, and oral histories. Emphasis is placed on helping students become aware of the purpose of rules and laws, that choices can be related to the scarcity of resources, and helping students describe their location at school and at home.

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Curriculum Alignment to Nevada Academic Content Standards

|The Charter School governing board attests that | |is: |

(Name of charter School)

• Currently fully aligned to the Nevada Academic Content Standards (Common Core Standards) in English Language Art (K-12).

• Currently fully aligned to the Nevada Academic Content Standards (Common Core Standards) in Mathematics (K-8) and working toward full implementation for grades 9-11 by 2014.

• Ready for the implementation of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Program.

• Moving toward full alignment to the new Nevada Academic Content Standards in Science (New Generation Science Standards).

• Currently fully aligned to the Nevada Academic Content Standards in Social Studies.

If you are unable to attests to these five things, please explain where in the process the school is currently, how full alignment will be obtained, and when full alignment will be completed.

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The charter school governing board furthermore understands that changes to the curriculum that are of such a nature to cause the curriculum within the Charter Application to cease to be in operation are a material amendment. Material amendments require Authority approval. Pursuant to NRS 386.527(6) any material amendment to the Charter Contract or Written Charter will be effective only if approved in writing by the Authority. The proposed amendment must be submitted in a manner consistent with applicable law and regulation and defined in the Operations Manual. A material amendment shall not become effective and the Charter School shall not take action or implement the change requested in the amendment until the amendment is approved, in writing, by the Authority.

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