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Superintendent's Note

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2011-12 Events Calendar

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Registering your child for school

Grades 3-8 State Testing Dates Available

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Flu Information

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Seasonal flu guide for parents.

Spring 2012 Driver Education

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Employee HazCom Online Training

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Free and Reduced Price Meals Program

Application for 2011-12

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English Language Arts

English Language Arts Supervisors

Elementary

Patty Skiba
Phone:
(518) 694-8825

 

Secondary

Anthony Bango
Phone:
(518) 439-4921 

Language is...

A means for thinking creatively, persuading, exploring new worlds, making informed and reasonable judgments, analyzing, critiquing, comparing and contrasting ideas.

The personal connection with classic and contemporary text, diversity of cultures and familiarity with all literary genres and forms.

The ability to acquire and transmit knowledge by identifying cause and effect, supporting a thesis, discerning fact from opinion, gathering evidence, and presenting information in a format which includes correct use of the rules and spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, structure and appropriate conventions. It uses a wide range of forms including the use of technology to present information and to develop text.

 

"Skillful use of language may be the single most important means of realizing the overarching goal of education to develop informed, thinking citizens." [National Council of Teachers of English, 1989]

 

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, contact Anthony Bango, High School English, (518) 439-4921.