Technology
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Dolores Mission students are receiving a quality education in an environment that maximizes learning by leveraging new and innovative technologies.
Using technology, teachers are able to better explain concepts in math and science. We are thrilled to participate in the Catholic Communication & Collaboration C3 Ignite! program.
Updated digital devices, including iPads and notebook computers, will be used by students in and out of the classroom to enhance learning in all core subjects.
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Reading & Writing
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Transitional Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
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A daily, game-based phonics and reading development program for 20-30 minutes each day along with our integrated English language arts program.
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We teach daily phonics in several ways, including highly engaging games. Smarty Ants build foundational reading skills in an interactive and adaptive learning.
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Environment designed to build a love of reading for students in PreK-2. Their personal "ant" guides and leads students through animated lessons and activities while providing encouragement along the way.
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Transitional Kindergarten- 2nd Grade
- Primary Literacy (TK-2) is a comprehensive English language arts curriculum crafted for grades K–2 using evidence-based literacy practices. This proven-effective program follows a unique systematic and explicit instructional path through engaging, increasingly complex text crafted for grades K–2 using evidence-based literacy practices.
- We teach daily phonics in several ways, including lesson where we read, speak, listen, write, and think each day.
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3rd Grade- 8th Grade
- A comprehensive adaptive software that meets the needs of each learner ensuring that all grade content is mastered.
- Achieve 3000 modifies each student’s text to their individual reading level and needs and builds on a model of acceleration which builds students skills for success.
- Success for every student can be realized with a systematic and flexible approach to measuring growth, forecasting performance, targeting instruction, and creating a culture of literacy that celebrates and supports every student.
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Students learn critical reading skills using text from English, science, and social studies.
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Achieve 3000 also rigorously measures each student’s Lexile growth in reading.
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4th Grade - 8th Grade
- It is an online library of Common Core math and ELA curriculum that offers users blended and adaptive learning solutions. Students work through Redbird Advanced Learning’s lessons at their own pace, while teachers and parents can monitor student progress and mastery using data from ongoing embedded assessments.
- Students practice reading and writing each day in Redbird Writing, a program developed by Stanford University that uses artificial intelligence to coach students as they write.
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3rd Grade - 8th Grade
- Students use an enormous digital library with tens of thousand of novels, short stories, plays, poems, articles, documents, and technical writings to learn in every subject areas.
- Actively Learn is the interactive reading platform that makes reading meaningful for every student. Students are assigned articles based on history, literature, current events, and science.
- This platform supports students to establish meaning, analyze the text, and apply ideas with depth learned from text by writing an original essay or creating a project based on the text.
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STEM
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Transitional Kindergarten - 8th Grade
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DreamBox is a digital math program designed with rigorous and interactive lessons which adapts to each student providing a comprehensive personalized learning experience.
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Students set up their own learning environment where they learn math ideas, skills, strategies, and ways to solve problems with math.
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DreamBox uses a powerful computer program to modify each lesson to how the student thinks.
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3rd Grade - 8th Grade
- Redbird learning was developed by Stanford University to help student learn math skills and then use those skills to solve real world problems in science, technology and engineering.
- Every student starts at their own level and progresses a step at a time, all the while applying their new skills to solve real world problems.
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Kindergarten - 8th Grade
- STEMscopes™ is a comprehensive suite of results-oriented STEM curriculum and professional development solutions. STEMscopes is highly adaptable and was developed by Accelerate Learning Inc. in partnership with Rice University.
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