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Curriculum

Everest Value student

Everest Value School ambitiously aims to be an innovator amongst educational institutions in delivering a demanding Common Core aligned education. This has been accomplished through a meticulous teacher development program, a rigorous curriculum, and investing in STEM materials and technology-rich classrooms. Everest seeks to create student opportunities on campus to apply their knowledge to “real life” positions in an expanding its student leadership system.  Our purpose is to equip scholars with the necessary skills to triumph over all challenges presented in high school, college, and beyond.

Everest Value engages with researched based core curricular resources to ensure that the CCSS are being addressed at a level of rigor necessary for students to be successful on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. It should be noted that the school views all curricular resources as “tools” to be used as needed. Under the guidance of mentors and with the help of supplemental sites, many of our teachers have developed much more creative and engaging lessons. The following are the base level curriculum used in all classrooms: 

Learning Targets 
 

Everest Value School teachers have access to the Houghton Mifflin’s platform of hybrid text and online curriculum: Go Math (K-8), Journeys (K-5), Collections (6-8). The school has added programs from Engaged New York and Lucy Calkin’s Readers and Writers Workshop to supplement their classroom’s Common Core instruction. Teachers rely on these programs as the core of their daily instruction and aggregate these assessments using their PowerSchool grade book to help calculate trimester grades. However, Everest teachers have been trained to go much deeper into their students’ performance data than this.

Data Driven Approach
 

Everest Value School, understanding this emphasis in its charter, has built in a variety of tools for teachers to both deliver targeted instruction and gather and analyze data on student performance. Well beyond the classroom, in every corner and department on the campus, student performance data is being reviewed and minor course corrections are being made based on this analysis. Here are some of the primary avenues at Everest for this type of discussion.

The Literacy Program 
 

Everest Value School believes that literacy achievement is vital to the success of students in college and in life.  Therefore, we have developed a data driven literacy program with the following components to support our students’ growth.