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Slidell District and Curriculum
The St. Tammany Parish Public School System is committed to providing students with an educational environment that includes a rigorous and challenging curriculum, excellent instruction within a nurturing framework. The district believes that parent and community involvement are key to student success and that education is a shared responsibility. The goal is to provide students with the skills they need to be successful in their communities and to instill students with an appreciation of lifelong learning.
We currently cover the following Slidell-area school district: St. Tammany Parish Public School System.
Educating Our Parents: Understanding the Slidell District Curriculum
The St. Tammany Parish Public School System is implementing the state approved Common Core Curriculum in all of the district’s schools. Common Core provides students with a set of progressive expectations in Language Arts and Mathematics. The curriculum is demanding and set to be aligned with critical thinking and communication goals for workplace and college readiness.
The reading portion of the curriculum aims for students to be introduced to different types of fiction and a variety of non-fiction sources. They are meant to learn interpretative and analytic comprehension strategies as well as be able to evaluate information presented in newspapers, non-fiction texts, and as found online. Students are also expected to write analytic responses to these texts. Other research skills including properly citing sources, avoiding plagiarism, and how to pursue independent research are also taught.
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Keeping Informed: Recent Slidell Educational News
- FFA in the Schools - In a recent school board meeting members highlighted the importance of the FFA organization also known as the Future Farmers Association to the school system as a whole. Individual schools and their students participate in FFA events and the FFA has awarded a variety of honors to district schools. Creekside Junior High and Fifth Ward Junior High both received the Three Star national award at the recent national FFA convention putting them in the top five middle school FFA chapters in the country.
- Annual Events - The St. Tammany Parish Public School System celebrated Veterans Day with a variety of patriotic programs honoring those who have served in the US military. A program was held at the C. J. Schoen Administrative Center in Covington which included music and presentations. A Color Guard was presented by the Lakeshore High School JROTC-Army club and students from Pearl River High theater program provided a skit about the Constitution. Area veterans from the community were invited to attend.
- Fundraiser for Children’s Museum - The St. Tammany Parish Public School System recently participated in a fundraiser to help provide funding for the new Children’s Museum of St. Tammany. The fundraiser called Black and Gold Day was a combination event with school staff, students and community members wearing gold and black in honor of the New Orleans Saints Football Team at the museum fund event. The new museum is to be a hands-on educational and fun museum with a focus on science, history, and exploration.
Slidell 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: Online Music Resources
Want to get your kids involved and excited about music? You can find lots of fun activities at the website for DARIA, a well known folk singer who travels the world sharing her music and spreading her thoughts on teaching respect and tolerance for others. Her work has won her Parent’s Choice Awards, and NAPPA awards. Check out the instructions for making your own percussion instruments such as the Bilma rhythm sticks or the button castanets, the Chinese gong, or the cajon a Peruvian box drum. Learn how to make and play an Australian didgeridoo, an African drum, Peruvian rattles from egg cartons and a sistrum from Egypt. There is also information for musical games, pages to color, musical activities for special days and kids can also learn how to say holiday greeting in 18 different languages.
