Academics

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• Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide

  Lesson ideas and resources to help teach the Holocaust and genocide in in the secondary grades.

• The Governor's Summer Reading Challenge

  CONNECTICUT READS, the Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge encourages students to read during the Summer.

• What is Mastery-Based Learning?

  Connecticut students can learn through student-centered pathways that ensure college and career readiness.

• Why Mastery-Based Learning?

  Rather assuming that completing a number of hours in a classroom results in understanding, mastery-based learning requires students to demonstrate knowledge and skills before progressing to the next level. Mastery-based learning requires teachers to develop a more fine-grained understanding of student abilities.

• Women and Girls in STEM

  Educational materials to encourage women and girls to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related career pathways.

• World Languages

  World language programs in Connecticut public schools include Spanish, French, Latin, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Arabic and Greek. The effort has been to start programs as early as possible in the elementary grades.