APPLIED MATERIALS (continued)
thus qualifying for Geometry in the ninth grade. This advancement will allow students to take Calculus by their senior year in high school, greatly increasing the likelihood that they will enter and graduate from college.
ACE Charter School ACE Charter School is a 5th through 8th grade middle school that recruits incoming students who have fallen signifi cantly below grade level and help those low-achieving students change their academic trajectory away from failure and accelerate them toward profi ciency as a stepping-stone to college. The school’s graduates will enter 9th grade profi cient in English-Language Arts and Math as measured by the California Standards Test (CST) portion of the state STAR program, and will possess the skills, knowledge, and work ethic to thrive in a rigorous college-prep high school curriculum. The school has developed a method of motivating, supporting, and tracking students – OQAY Growth – that enables students to make at least One Quintile A Year of academic achievement each year.
San Jose Unifi ed School District Five elementary schools working with Partners in School Innovation administrators and teachers are learning to use student achievement data to guide instruction to meet student needs in English language arts and mathematics. This effort reaches over 3,000 students, 150 teachers, and 5 schools in San Jose.
Alum Rock Union School District Cesar Chavez School is working with Partners in School Innovation to ensure that Adminis- trators and teachers are learning to use student achievement data to guide instruction to meet student needs in English language arts and mathematics. This program reaches around 600 students and 30 teachers.
Downtown College Prep – Charter High School Downtown College Prep enables low-income students to become the fi rst in their families to be accepted and thrive at four-year colleges. Applied has reached around 100 students through the school.
Austin, TX Programs
GirlStart – Expanding Your Horizons Conference Girlstart’s 5th annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) is a one-day workshop created especially for girls in 4th through 8th grades. At EYH, girls attend three unique hands-on workshops, led by professional women who are excited about sharing their science, technology, engineering and math careers with EYH participants. Applied is the present- ing sponsor of this workshop and provides the core group of volunteers.
Manor High School – Math Intervention Applied supports Manor High School’s Math Intervention Program, which provides direct intervention for 140 tenth and eleventh grade students who failed state math tests. The interventionist works directly with the students to create a customized plan for success, through instructional support and after-school tutoring. The program is also used to better inform classroom instruction and provide teacher mentoring to guide data-driven decision making and teaching. The program is targeted at closing the achievement gap for this low-income school.
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