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Kettering District and Curriculum
Kettering City Schools has adopted Ohio’s New Learning Standards (Common Core State Standards) in Reading and Mathematics and is in the process of making the transition to these standards. The Common Core State Standards is a sequence of learning standards to instill a set of skills in all grade levels to master common core concepts. Content mastery of these standards will develop students who are successful in school or in post-high school endeavors—college or career. The district standards insure the development of 21st century technology skills in addition to fundamental skills.
We currently cover the following Kettering-area school district: Kettering City Schools.
Educating Our Parents: Understanding the Kettering District Curriculum
In English/Language Arts, the Common Core Standards are for students to read and understand many types of reading selections, including literature. Students are expected to acquire knowledge in literature and other disciplines through reading, writing, speaking, and listening. As students learn to read in grades K-3, they are exposed to fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and other types of selections. As students move past third grade and on to middle and high school, reading is also emphasized in other content areas such as Social Studies, Math and Science.
Skills are assessed on a regular basis and assessment is cumulative. The district has developed tools and resources to pace and support instruction Data from assessments is used to plan further instruction. The district is data-driven and uses the data to drive instruction and analyzing the data has let to continuous improvement of instruction in the district. The Kettering City Schools meets the needs of all types of learners and have support and resources in place to do so effectively.
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Keeping Informed: Recent Kettering Educational News
- Real World Design Challenge - A team of Kettering Fairmont High School students partnered with mentors from Sinclair Community College, Wright State University, and Wright Patterson Air Force Base to design an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) that could locate a lost person—specifically a child—in a National forest or park. These students are a part of Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Engineering Program at the high school. They took six months on their project, designing the system to required specifications, and competed in a national contest with other teams. The Fairmont HS team won a merit award at the national level is this Real World Design Challenge.
- District Honors - Kettering City Schools has been recognized as exceeding student learning standards for the 2011-2012 school year. The district also received a the best ranking of Excellent with Distinction on the 2012 Ohio State Report Card, and a Battelle award for the top learning growth in the entire state of Ohio. Kettering City Schools have earned an impressive amount of recognition for their excellence in learning. These awards are the result of the numerous instructional excellence initiatives in place for the district.
- Best Community for Music Education - In a period with declining performing arts budges, Kettering was named a Best Community for Music Education in recent years. Only 179 communities (including 172 communities and 7 schools) in the nation earned this distinction. The NAMM Foundation named the honorees. The distinctions came as the result of a survey which searched the nation for those communities who demonstrate a huge commitment to music education. Honorees had to score at or above the 80th percentile on the survey which includes questions about the music programs, support for those programs, and generic questions about funding, graduation requirements, instructional time, and facilities.
Kettering Tutors Can Help Your Student Succeed
SchoolTutoring Academy works with young learners and students, all the way up through high school. We offer Pre-K and Kindergarten Tutoring as well as Elementary School Tutoring to build a strong learning foundation early on. We also offer comprehensive tutoring across all school subjects.
Chalk Talk: How to Avoid Sentence Fragments
A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not have a subject and a verb (predicate). It is not an independent clause, so the group of words is an incomplete thought. This usually happens when a sentence lacks a subject or a verb. To make a sentence fragment into a complete sentence, the missing subject or verb must be added or the sentence fragment can be joined to another sentence. Here’s an example: 'Sonya riding.' is a fragment. 'Sonya went riding." would be the corrected non-fragment version.
