An Agreement for Technical Services has been developed with Teachers' Curriculum Institute to provide training for 40 teachers, Grades 5-12, June 19-23, 2006, at Burnett Middle School. The five-day workshop entitled “Level 1: History Alive! Powerful Teaching Strategies” will focus on discovering how to tap into students’ multiple intelligences, building content reading skills, using graphically organized reading notes, creating and implementing processing assignments, and assessing students using the multiple intelligences. Woven throughout the training will be techniques for creating a cooperative tolerant classroom environment.

Goal 1 - The percentage of students scoring at Level 3 or higher on FCAT reading will increase a minimum of 5 percentage points.

Funds of $9,900 are included in the divisional special revenue/federal programs budget through the Teaching American History Grant, Project 0705. There is no additional cost to the district.

The results of this training, as measured through student achievement, will be part of the overall Teaching American History Grant evaluation in September 2007.