This executive summary of the School Accountability Report Card (SARC) is intended to provide parents and community members with a quick snapshot of school accountability. The data presented in this report are reported for the 2008-09 school year, except the School Finances and School Completion data that are reported for the 2007-08 school year. For [...]
Category Archives: Project Based Curriculum In Action
LFCSA Core Curriculum: Project-Based Learning
December 11, 2008 – 12:15 am
Project-based learning is a comprehensive instructional approach to engage students in sustained, cooperative investigation (Bransford & Stein, 1993). Within its framework students collaborate, working together to make sense of what is going on. Project-based instruction differs from inquiry-based activity — activity most of us have experienced during our own schooling by its emphasis on cooperative [...]
Kindergarteners Explore Caring Theme with Food
April 23, 2008 – 12:58 am
article and photos by Lillie Pardo For the second part of the project-based social studies unit on how families show care, the Kindergarteners in Ms. Pardo’s class studied “food.” Throughout the study of food, lesson plans, or “learning events,” incorporated art, drama, reading, writing, math, science, and of course, social studies. Students learned about food [...]
TINKERING WITH TIME
February 3, 2008 – 5:26 pm
An Integrated Approach to Project-Based Learning by Tawny Dovico and Renee Marcy | photos by Tawny Dovico Throw the lever! Flip the switch! Spin the bobbin! Drop the hitch! Blast four weeks into the past. When the frothy smoke dissipates and the magic time travel dust settles you’ll find yourself in the second-grade classrooms among [...]
KINDERGARTENERS ELABORATE ON “CARING” THEME WITH “SHELTERS”
November 30, 2007 – 11:41 pm
text and photos by Lillie Pardo The kindergarten school year began with learning about “caring,” which led to learning about “shelter” in early October. The guiding question for the whole unit was “How do family members show they care for each other?” To make a bridge from caring to shelter, each student made a sock [...]
FIRST-GRADERS EXPLORE THE CONCEPT OF NEIGHBORHOOD
November 23, 2007 – 10:01 am
by Alyssa Gonzales What exactly is a neighborhood? If you had asked a first grade student this question in early September, it would have sparked a variety of personal responses. So how do we as educators take all of these wonderful ideas and honor our students’ individual input while validating their unique experiences? We ask [...]
“Fashion Week” at Los Feliz Arts
June 1, 2007 – 10:25 pm
By: Bebe Johnson “Vogueing” like pros, they strutted the makeshift catwalk at LFCSA by twos and threes, pausing—with a bit of attitude—at the front of the stage to show off the t-shirts they had individually created the week before. An invasion of supermodels? No, it was the culmination of Ms. Hamberger’s first grade class unit [...]
Our Journey to the Post Office
May 11, 2007 – 9:55 pm
By: Tawny Dovico Early February brought with it bubbling excitement for Valentine’s Day. The notion of making letters and cards, sending them, and also receiving them in a reciprocal gesture of friendship and fun, inevitably fostered fertile ground for our organic discovery of the postal system.
School Accountability Report Card 2007-08
May 1, 2007 – 2:38 pm
This executive summary of the School Accountability Report Card (SARC) is intended to provide parents and community members with a quick snapshot of school accountability. The data presented in this report are reported for the 2007-08 school year, except the School Finances and School Completion data that are reported for the 2006-07 school year. For [...]
