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Pittsburg District and Curriculum
Pittsburg Community School District USD 250’s curriculum follows the Kansas College and Career Ready Common Core Standards. Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) collaboratively identify the curriculum that must be taught as it correlates to the Common Core Standards in each subject area. PLCs further suggest formative and summative assessments to demonstrate student proficiency, prescribe intervention strategies to ensure all students experience success, and identify differentiation strategies to meet the needs of all learners.
We currently cover the following Pittsburg-area school district: Pittsburg Community Schools USD 250.
Educating Our Parents: Understanding the Pittsburg District Curriculum
The core curriculum helps each student build successfully to a full level of proficiency in each subject over their school years. The district has recently renovated and constructed new schools to better facilitate student learning, utilizing innovate technology and equipment. All elementary schools have an all-day kindergarten, and an alternative education setting is also available for students. The district focuses on developing 21st Century skills, offering high school students courses in technology, graphic design, drafting, accounting, business, and health sciences.
There are also College and Career Readiness Standards in place to ensure that students have the necessary technical, communication and professional skills to succeed in post-secondary life. Students also have Advanced Placement options that provides coursework at a college level and if students successfully pass the end of year AP exam may earn credit to be applied once in college. There is also a focus on service learning and teaching students how to connect to their communities.
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Keeping Informed: Recent Pittsburg Educational News
- Outstanding Partner in Progress Award - Pittsburg Community Schools was recently honored with the Rex Crowley Outstanding Partner in Progress Award by Pittsburg State University. This award recognizes members of the community who demonstrate leadership in community service through professional and volunteer activities.
- Student Congress News - Pittsburg Community Middle School’s Student Congress serves as the “eyes and ears” to help schools better meet the needs of their students. Members of the Congress listen to student concerns and then translate those to administrators. Recently, they have engaged in the community as well, tackling community service projects at the district’s Family Resource Center, learning what goes on beyond the school environment.
- Advanced Science Program - Students in Pittsburg High School’s Molecular Genetics course have a chance to make scientific history through a challenge to discover a new phage, a type of bacteria-attacking virus. The University of Pittsburgh Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship Phage Hunting Program has sponsored the challenge for students across the country in efforts to motivate and engage students in useful scientific research.
Pittsburg 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: What Are Literature Circles?
Literature circles are an effective way to encourage inquiry among students and demonstrate their comprehension through dialogue and individual expression. After completing a novel or short story, students are assigned literature circle roles to each student in small groups, clearly explaining the roles and expectations. Typically, there is a discussion director who designs questions for dialogue among team members to elicit critical thinking, a summarizer to discuss what was read, an illustrator to express a particular scene of importance, and a predictor to provide ideas of what may happen next in the reading. The roles allow for independent learning while encouraging social models of learning and inquiry. While students prepare their roles, provide feedback about essential elements they may wish to include in their discussion. By using literature circles, students have the chance to take charge through both independent and interpersonal learning.
