Quizlet Tool for Creating Study Guides

Two teachers are using Quizlet to create Study Quides, Flip Cards, for their students: 

Mrs. Farmer uses Quizlet to create Study Guides for her science students.   

Mrs. Danielson uses Quizlet to create Study Guides for her social studies students:  

CUESD Textbooks for 2013-2014

The officially "Adopted Textbooks" for the Corning Union Elementary School District, for the 2013-2014 school year, are available on a list. 

Mr. Tarbell's U.S. History Class

Mr. Tarbell, our new 8th grade social studies teacher has created his own webpage: 
Mr. Tarbell's U.S. History Class

Take a look at his classy webpage using Weebly.

Common Core Standards Information

There are excellent Parent Handbooks for the new Common Core Curriculum.  These Parent Handbooks are available in both English and Spanish.  We are now using the Common Core Standards for our academic programs at all our five schools in the Corning Union Elementary School District. 

Middle School Common Core Standards

Dear Parents and Guardians,
In the 2014/2015 school year, all public schools in the state of California will be assessed under a new set of academic standards.  The new standards are called the Common Core State Standards (http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/).  The standards describe what students should know and be able to do by the end the of each grade level.  In preparation for this change, Corning Union Elementary School District (CUESD) will be moving to these standards this school year.   

Over the past year, Corning Union Elementary School District has been hard at work preparing for these changes.  While each subject area will see adjustments to curriculum and learning strategies, middle school mathematics will see some of the biggest change.  For our students, this means that 7^th graders will no longer take Pre-Algebra in 7^th grade; the course will now be called “7^th grade math.”  This will focus on:  ratios and proportional relationships, the number system, expressions and equations, geometry, and statistics and probability.  For 8th graders, they will no longer take Algebra 1; they will now take “8^th grade math.”  This will focus on the number system, expressions and equations, functions, geometry, and statistics and probability.  Content in both grade levels has been streamlined in the Common Core allowing teachers and students to go slower and plow deeper into the concepts.  For comparison purposes, the table below shows the progression of course changes for grades 7-12.   

	Grade 7	Grade 8	Grade 9	Grade 10	Grade 11	Grade 12
Old Standards	Pre-algebra	Algebra 1	Algebra 1 or Geometry	Geometry or Algebra 2	Algebra 2 or Advanced Math	Advanced Math
New Standards	7th Grade Math or Accelerated 7th Grade Math	8th Grade Math or Math 1	Math 1 or Math 2	Math 2 or Math 3	Math 3 or Advanced Math	Advanced Math

CUESD has been working diligently with Corning Union High School and the Tehama County Department of Education to coordinate our programs.  In doing so, it is our desire to provide the smoothest transition possible.  This year, we will be offering our students both 7^th and 8^th Grade Math the first year of implementation.  Then, in 2014/2015, we hope to offer the advanced 7^th and 8^th grade courses as well.

We believe that the new Common Core Standards will better prepare our students for the 21^st century.  There is a strong emphasis on deeper levels of thinking, communication skills, real world application, and the integration of technology skills.  We as a district embrace the change, but also recognize that change does not come without challenge.  As questions arise, please feel free to contact your child’s school, the district office, or search the many resources available on-line for the Common Core State Standards.  In the coming year our schools will focus on helping the community to understand the changes at open house and back to school nights.

Thank you for your support as we strive to advance our education system for the students of Corning.

David Cory, Principal
Maywood Middle School

Accelerated Reader Quizzes - Maywood Middle School

Our Maywood Middle School, Grades 6-8, has 7,259 Accelerated Reader (AR) Quizzes for our students to use. Our collection of AR quizzes includes books with AR reading levels from 3 to 12.

Parents and students can use the online database of our AR Quizzes. They can search for AR Quizzes by author, title, subject, AR reading level, AR points, fiction and non-fiction, and by reading interest levels.

Our Maywood Middle School Library has all books with AR Quizzes marked on the inside and outside of the book.

Holiday Fun

Mrs. Stout, Computer Center Specialist at Maywood School, has a variety of interesting webpages that might be useful with 5th to 7th grade students such as: Halloween Scavenger Hunt, Thanksgiving History Scavenger Hunt, Google Earth Hunt, and Christmas Tree Scavenger Hunt.

She also has a good links page for 8th grade students working on researching Careers.

Drupal Teacher Accounts

Every teacher at Maywood Middle School now has a Teacher's Page in the new Maywood Drupal Website. Each teacher was sent their new Drupal username and password. Each teacher was sent basic instructions on how to use a Teacher Page: http://cuesiz.blogspot.com/2010/09/maywood-drupal-website-teacher-accounts_28.html

The new Maywood Middle School Website is now online at: http://maywoodcuesd.org/

Each teacher can edit their Teacher's Page, add links, cut and past text into the editor, add images and photographs, import files, etc. This new situation is a break through in terms of freeing teachers from the need to work with a IT Webmaster to get information online for their students, parents, or other teachers.

Speak to Mike Garofalo for more information.

History and Social Science - Grades K-8

The San Bernardino County Department of Education, from 2000-2008, developed the SCORE History/Social Sciences Resources for students and teachers.

This project was part of the Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE).

The website is still a useful collection of annotated links to over 500 online resources.

SCORE History/Social Sciences Resources

The URL for this website is: http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/