Reading: The students at Curtis Bay Elementary School receive first-rate literacy instruction from a dedicated and determined staff which pushes strong foundational and comprehension skills, all while ensuring students have an opportunity to discuss what they are learning so that they can ultimately produce a written response that demonstrates their thinking in a friendly and loving environment.  

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Writing:

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"Mathing": Here at the BEST School in Baltimore, our scholars receive engaging, meaningful, and equitable math instruction from highly qualified teachers on a daily basis. Within each whole group and small group lesson delivered, our teachers facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse, pose purposeful questions, implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem-solving, and support productive struggle in learning mathematics.

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"Sciencing": Curtis Bay Elementary School Students engage in hands on Science activities that is guided by the SABES curricula.  Students become scientists daily with a variety of activities, labs and experiments.  We have fun and learn a lot when we are “Sciencing” at Curtis Bay Elementary School.    

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"Social Studying": Our students become Historians with a wide variety of historical investigations at Curtis Bay Elementary School.  City Schools’ curricula creates themes for each year to build a spiraled learning experience for students that moves from a self to a global perspective in the early elementary grades.  Below are our grade level studies.

Kindergarten - Ourself, Our Families, & Our Class

Grade 1 - Our School & Our Community

Grade 2 - Our Baltimore & Our Maryland

Grade 3 - Our Nation & Our World

Grade 4 - Our Maryland Past - Worlds Collide in the Colonial Era 

Grade 5 - Our Changing World - Rights, Challenges, and Adaptations of Citizenship in the United States

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ESOL:

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GAL:

The Gifted and Advanced Learning (GAL) Program at Curtis Bay is one that has been uniquely designed to meet the needs of individual students in grades Pre-K - 5.  Early identification begins when Pre-K and Kindergarten students engage in analogies practice using First Time Analogies, Lollipop Logic, and Legends of Learning (available in the Clever portal).  When students demonstrate readiness, ALL Kindergarten students are given the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test 3 (NNAT), a test that was “designed to remove cultural influences, allow students to solve problems regardless of the language they speak, and significantly reduce the amount of formal knowledge required so tests measure how well students 'think', rather than what students 'know’.”  Additionally, any student in grades 1-5 that have not been tested or should be retested are also provided with strategic practice opportunities before being given the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test for their grade level. If you would like your child to be retested with the NNAT3, please fill out our online form. You can also contact Kate Amberger at kbamberger@bcps.k12.md.us or Raina Somogyi at rsomogyi@bcps.k12.md.us with any questions. 

Once identified, students complete an interest inventory, and their academic data is analyzed on an individual basis to determine their GAL path.  An Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) is then created for each GAL student to determine the type of Personalized Learning they should receive.  These types of learning include one or more of the following:  

• Interest Based activities 

• Project Based Learning 

• Advanced Reading Curriculum called Jacob’s Ladder 

• Advanced Math Curriculums by William and Mary School of Education and Beast Academy 

• STEM based Invention Projects 

• The Talent Mentoring Program in partnership with The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM)

• Arts-Based Activities 

• Renzulli Learning is also utilized during Personalized Learning time for students in grades 3-8. 

• GAL students are also members of the GAL Google Classroom with various activities to extend their learning.

Can my child be screened for Gifted and Advanced Programs?

Please complete and submit the online referral form. Staff from the Gifted and Advanced Learning department in the district's Academics Office will review and forward the form to your child's school. You will be notified about the status of the submission at each stage of the process.

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