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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and The Reading & Writing Project Network, LLC, Ridgefiled, CT, for the latter to provide: The Home Grown Writing Institute (Grades K-5) using four (4) trainers to conduct a 4-day Institute to 120 participants, teachers grades K-5 in the following services:
Understanding the curriculum development in the teaching of writing;
Reading the Units of study in the writing workshop;
Aligning instruction to the Common Core State Standards;
Understanding the importance of assessment-based instruction;
Developing methods of holding students accountable for doing their best work;
Teaching interpretation, synthesis and critical writing;
Using learning progressions to plan for instructional next steps;
Developing classroom structures that support inquiry and collaboration; and
Supporting cross-textual work in nonfiction, through the Leadership, Curriculum and Instruction Department, for the period of February 18, 2014 through June 30, 2014 in an amount not to exceed $35,506.82.