1590 Bellaire Avenue Clovis, CA 93611 | (559) 327-7400

Miramonte Elementary

Part of the Clovis Unified School District

Multicultural Education

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Multi-cultural education encompasses how and what students learn. At Miramonte, a focus has been placed on the English Language Arts curriculum as an educational tool that can represent, teach, and respect a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds.

Core Reading Curriculum

Benchmark Curriculum

From the Benchmark Education Company website:

Benchmark Advance and Benchmark Adelante are comprehensive English and Spanish Reading/Language Arts programs from Benchmark Education Company for Kindergarten through sixth grade. These programs are built to address key shifts in curriculum and instruction to meet the demands of the new standards.

Rigorous, integrated reading, writing, speaking, and listening instruction meets the needs of districts implementing a reading collaborative, balanced approach, or workshop model, and enables all students to master rigorous learning goals with strong resources for differentiated instruction and responsive teaching based upon ongoing assessments.

A forward-thinking approach to English Learner instruction provides unique tools designed to scaffold students to on-level materials, which are complex, high-quality texts built for today's learner.

Collections

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From the Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt website:

Collections inspires teachers’ creative instructional choices by providing a plethora of unique resources—fully supported by point-of-use scaffolding—that make teaching exciting.

Collections creates passionate student readers with texts that matter to them, and their engagement with the texts inspires them to become critical readers, writers, and thinkers.

Social/Emotional Curriculum

Positivity Project

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2nd Step

From the Second Step website:

Second Step is a program rooted in social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to encourage children to thrive. More than just a classroom curriculum, Second Step’s holistic approach helps create a more empathetic society by providing education professionals, families, and the larger community with tools to enable them to take an active role in the social-emotional growth and safety of today’s children.