Download 2014-2015 academic pathways middle high goals

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS--------- School Year (2014-2015)
New Rochelle After-School Academic Tutoring Program
Monday-Friday 3-7p.m
55 Lincoln Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. 10801 (located on Bethesda Baptist Church property)
PHONE: 914-632-3080
[email protected]
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cademic Pathways is a community based supplementary after-school program with a focus on developing the
physical and intellectual growth of students from kindergarten through 12th grades.
 Academic Pathways works in collaboration with parents/guardians and teachers to ensure the Academic
Achievement Goals of New York State Department of Education are met.
 Academic Pathways believes that by building bridges that foster strong relationships we will positively change
lives, families, communities, and ultimately this nation.
 At Academic Pathways’ we are celebrating our eleventh school year. We are proud to state that we ended the last
school year with all of our high school seniors accepted into a four year accredited college or university with over
91% received merit-based scholarships.
Academic Pathways Supplementary Academic Achievement Goals
Sixth Grade Goals: Social Studies (civilizations and cultures of the Eastern Hemisphere Nations; China, Japan, India,
Egypt, Greece and Rome. To understand how the passage of time and developing technology changed culture. Analyze
the development of civilizations by regions in favorable geographic conditions. Economies of Eastern Hemisphere
Nations Themes and Explore the new forms of political order developed to meet increasingly complex need of societies.
Mathematics (Number Sense and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Statistics and Probability), Science
(Living Environment, develop the ability to make accurate observations, distinguish inferences from observations,
recognize the major earth biomes and identify the states of matter), John Hopkins program, and on site Spanish tutor.
Seventh Grade Goals: Social Studies (American people prior to 1500; explore the techniques used by social scientists to
study human cultures, analyze the geographic factors that affected the settlement patterns and living conditions of the
earliest Americans. (European Exploration and the colonization of the Americans). Science (variables, metric system units
of mass and volume, physiology of the circulatory, respiratory, reproductive and endocrine system, characteristics of the
lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere and the dynamics. Mathematics (Algebra, Geometry, Measurement Strand,
Statistics and Probability Strand), Language Arts (Reading Comprehension, Writing Language, Oratory Skills, Listening
and Speaking, Writing Purposes), On site Spanish tutor.
Eight Grade Goals: Social Studies (American History from Reconstruction to the present day; division and re-union use
primary source documents to analyze the events leading to Civil War, compare and contrast the various plans used to
reconstruct the nation, significance of 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments). Language Arts (Reading Comprehension,
Writing Language, Oratory Skills, Listening and Speaking, Writing Purposes), On site Spanish tutor.
Mathematics (students engage in problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connecting, and representing
their thinking), Equations and inequalities, patterns, functions, and relations, geometry strand and geometric relationships,
transformational geometry, coordinate geometry, and analytical geometry (coordinate). Science (design and conduct
experiments using the scientific method, density, excretory and immune system, examine the interaction of all body
systems, potential and kinetic energy, prepare for the New York State 8th grade science assessment).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Children will learn to use positive energy to strengthen academic performance, enhance homework skills, and
develop healthy peer relationships that increase self-efficacy and inspire academic success.
Dr. Angela Campbell, Executive Director
Transportation to program is available for New Rochelle Public School elementary students.
Academic Pathways is a not-for profit 501(c) 3