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Welcome to the Web Site of the Tamaqua-Shenandoah Educational Consortium.

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The Partner School Districts
Tamaqua Area SD | Shenandoah Valley SD

The Tamaqua Area School District and the Shenandoah Valley School District formed an educational partnership in August 2001 to collaboratively develop strategies and products to improve student achievement in their school districts.  Using funds provided by a P.D.E., Educate America Grant they enlisted the support of The Aster Group Inc. to assist them in the process.

They formed school-based teams in each district to work on language arts standards and a second team to work on mathematics standards.  The language arts teams collaborated during the Fall of 2001 and the math teams collaborated during the winter-spring of 2002.  Science and ecology standards were completed during the spring of  2002.

Team members from each district received professional development on academic standards, performance assessment and technology integration.  The team members from each district are prepared to offer training and mentoring activities to other staff members in their respective districts.

Language Arts Standards

BooksA complete set of language arts standards have been developed from the approved PA State standards.  Our standards take the state standards and further develop them to provide grade level standards at every grade from K-12.  You can view the entire set of standards by selecting the reading, writing or language arts standard's matrices from the standards table.  Or you may view the specific grade level standards by selecting the appropriate grade and subject.

The standards are available to teachers, students, parents and other stakeholders by merely clicking on the appropriate link.

Mathematics Standards

The mathematics standards documents that will guide instruction in grades K-12 in the Tamaqua Area and Shenandoah Valley School Districts are completed.  As with the language arts standards, a K-12 matrix of expanded standards and specific grade and course standard documents are available.

Science and Ecology Standards

The most challenging task undertaken by the science staffs in the Tamaqua and Shenandoah School Districts was the development of standards in science and technology and ecology and environmental science that could be successfully implemented and integrated in the school curriculum.  No subject area resulted in greater curricular than than science.  In each grade science and ecology standards were integrated into the core science course.  Many of the technology standards were designated for inclusion in specifically designed technology courses in each district. Some of the ecology standards are integrated into the social science curriculum. 

 

Curriculum Standards Matrix

Curricular Area K-12
Matrix
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Reading X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
Writing X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
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Arts
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
Mathematics X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
Ecology

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x x X X X X X X X

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Science & Technology

X

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