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• Scope and sequence for each subject in each grade;
• Detailed syllabi for each course listing the skills and concepts to be mastered; and
• A database of unit and daily lesson plans
In grades K-4, Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant’s math program includes:
• Approximately one hour and twenty minutes of daily instruction
• The Saxon math program – this particular program, suggested in Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant’s’s
initial Charter Application, provides a foundation in math fact knowledge and problem solving skills.
Saxon’s pedagogical approach, based on instruction, practice and assessment, has proven results.
• “Supplement Fridays” in which teachers teach lessons created in response to our assessment data that are
intended to supplement Saxon in key areas of problem-solving.
With the addition of grade 5 during the renewal term, Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant’s math program
will offer:
• Approximately two hours of daily math instruction in grades 5 through 8
• A “Standards Plus” curriculum in math; an approach which combines a teacher-created curriculum with
resources and ideas from commercial curricula, such as Saxon and Glencoe McGraw-Hill. While neither
of these commercial curricula will be explicitly taught in grades 5-8, some of their content will be used as
a framework for instruction. As is the case with the ELA curriculum, NYS standards are the basis for
curriculum design.
The 2008-09 school year is the first year in which Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant has a cohort of third
graders. Since the New York State ELA exam is not administered until January 2009 and the New York State
Math Exam is not administered until March 2009, the third grade students have not yet participated in any of
the New York State or New York City examinations. The school administered the TerraNova math and ELA
assessment to all students to gauge our students’ current progress in Literacy and Mathematics. We believe
the TerraNova closely mirrors the New York State examinations and provides the best possible insight at this
point in the school’s development as to our students’ progress. Our student’s strong performance in Literacy
and Math on the TerraNova indicates that we are making meaningful progress with our young scholars. For
detailed results regarding student academic performance, please refer to Renewal Question 1 (Attachment D).
Teach Until They Learn
Leadership Prep Charter School strives to provide its students with every possible opportunity to learn. This
means that Leadership Prep not only has a longer school day that begins at 7:30 AM and ends at 4:00 PM
with 6+ hours of instruction, but also has a longer school year consisting of 186 instructional days. Over the
course of the school year, this is equivalent to at least 25% more instructional time than the New York City
Department of Education’s minimum of 5 hours of daily instruction over 181 school days in grades K-6.
Even as students leave for the day, the learning continues. Each student, including each
Kindergarten student, takes home at least 20 minutes of homework every evening. Parents/guardians review
and sign each evening’s assignment upon completion. Families and scholars are expected to read together for
20 minutes each night as well. Leadership Prep students finished the 2007-08 school year with a 96%
Homework completion rate.
At Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant, support for learning comes through multiple means:
• Clear, engaging, high-quality lessons in the classroom fostered by a low student to teacher ratio
(especially in the lower grades, where it is no higher than 14:1 and reading groups never exceed ten
students with one teacher.)
Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant Charter School
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