Mingo County Schools

	News and Notes Mingo County Schools would like to invite parents to review and comment on the strategic plan for Mingo County Schools. After reviewing the document please send comments to dcockril@access.k12.wv.us. Calendar of Professional Development Sessions 02.02 Tuition Assistance Policy available. 02.02 Information on co-teaching models. 02.02 Parents' Corner. PD Online! courses in formative assessment and multicultural education are available. You may register here. Tech Tips by Mingo County Technology Integration Specialists. Resources from the 21st Century Learning Community Resource Packets added. Creating Essential Questions WVDE to offer online professional development. Links to lesson plansfor mathematics and reading/language arts intervention.
	Book Review Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction By Isabelle Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, Linda Kucan, Linda Kucan, and Margaret G. McKeown. (reviewed by Deanna New) We all recognize the critical importance of vocabulary learning for children and adolescents struggling with language and literacy learning. The challenge is how we can better support genuine vocabulary learning so that struggling students will be better positioned to meet the new reading and writing standards. This book offers teachers a strong conceptual framework and evidence-based strategies for achieving the goal of functional vocabulary learning. The rich and detailed strategies are presented in a highly readable way. It allows the teacher to find many ideas that can easily be adapted into meaningful strategies for boosting the authentic word knowledge that most students need for attaining academic language proficiency. (continue)

Curriculum and Instructional Strategies
| Mingo County Strategic Plan | Calendar of Professional Development Sessions | Curriculum Maps for Language Arts
| Curriculum Maps for Mathematics | Connextions | Differentiated Instruction | Multicultural Education | Tech Tips | Interventions | Forum

Literacy and Language Arts
Strategic Plan for Reading/Language Arts | Writing Plan | Writing Benchmarks

Mathematics
| Strategic Plan for Math (PDF) | Everyday Math | Connected Mathematics | High School Mathematics