The Maine Department of Education is distributing $836,000 to the state’s school districts to fund special educational services for preschool-age children with disabilities for the 2011-12 school year.
Category: Early Childhood
Upcoming training for early childhood educators
The U.S. liaison for an internationally known approach to early childhood education will speak in Maine twice this fall during a series of professional development sessions aimed at early childhood and elementary-school educators.
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Houlton creates culture of reading, high expectations
Houlton Elementary School’s Reading First grant has helped the school transform into a community with high expectations for every student.
HOULTON — Students are surrounded by literacy the moment they enter Houlton Elementary School. They have no choice.
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Turner school works on data-driven teaching
Teachers dig into data to improve teaching and learning.
TURNER — Teachers at Turner Primary School are trying to figure out how they can best use data to improve the instruction they offer their 300 students in pre-kindergarten through third grade.
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