Replicable Practices

• Carnegie provides intervention opportunities through after-school tutoring, group collaboration in classrooms, AVID tutorials, teaching assistants, and a math tutorial class offered as support for core math class. In addition, a Read 180 class is offered during the school day for students who are not yet proficient in Reading/Language Arts.

• Pacing guides, and lesson plans, are supported and assessments in all curricular areas are used to drive instruction and to analyze student performance.

• Teachers are supported by release time weekly to meet by department or grade level to analyze student work, plan for interventions, classes, and discuss best practices.

• Students develop goals for the year in the areas of behavior, responsibility, and work habits which supports the work of measuring progress.

• Study strategies are built into weekly lessons including Cornell note-taking, text mapping, review of testing language, and the use of online resources and textbooks.

• Daily Homeroom provides time for monitoring student progress, goal setting, participating in character education activities, and preparing for student-led conferences.

• A variety of electives are available to students including Garage Band, 3 levels of band, film production, music composition, photography, and visual arts.

• Carnegie families benefit from campus visitation days where students and their families can spend time on campus, visit classrooms, and speak with teachers, administrators, and students.

• Utilizing the “Naviance” program, the counseling team works with eighth-grade students on developing an individualized six-year goal-setting plan that begins in middle school and guides them through high school.

• Release time is provided consistently for peer observations and content area collaboration to improve teaching methodology, classroom management, assessment, and professional relationships.

• Carnegie has a well-developed, award-winning Video Production program that trains students to continue to pursue this interest in high school and beyond.