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• Career and Technical Education

  Career and Technical Education (CTE) provides students of all ages with the academic, technical skills, knowledge and training necessary to succeed in future careers and to become lifelong learners.

• How Does Mastery-Based Learning Work?

  With mastery-based learning, all students must demonstrate what they have learned before moving on. Before students can pass a course, move on to the next grade level, or graduate, they must demonstrate that they have mastered the skills and knowledge they were expected to learn.

• Identifying gifted and talented children in CT

  Information for Parents, Educators, and Administrators for gifted and talented children.

• Coaching and Self-Reflection Tool for Competency in Teaching English Learners

  Aligned to Connecticut’s CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching, this tool is for professional development and growth as well as guiding observations and discussions.

• Red, White & Blue Schools

  The Red, White & Blue Schools program is a civic engagement initiative led by Secretary of the State Denise Merrill and the State Department of Education.

• Guidelines for Adapted Physical Education

  The purpose of these guidelines is to clarify and to underscore the importance of physical education—in the context of meaningful physical participation within a community of peers—for students with disabilities in a school environment.

• Social Studies Standards and Resources

  Social studies is the integration of knowledge and human experience for the purpose of citizenship.

• Connecticut Apprenticeship and Education Committee

  The committee coordinates the education of middle and high school students about careers in manufacturing.

• College Opportunities

  Find information and links to college opportunities

• 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.

• Literacy/English Language Arts

  Curriculum and Instruction, Surveys, and Assessments for English Language Arts.

• Homeschooling in Connecticut

  Homeschooling as an Option to Public School Education

• 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.

• Teachers Evaluation Resources for Physical Education

• Early Childhood, PreK-Grade 3

  The time between birth through grade 3 is considered the early childhood developmental period. The Connecticut State Department of Education provides guidance and resources for public schools beginning in preK.