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Board approves new English Foundations course for ninth-grade special-education students
Summary
Wallingford adopted a full-year English Foundations course for ninth-grade students with IEPs, designed to build reading, writing, grammar and stamina in a structured, flexible small-group setting.
The Wallingford Board of Education on June 2 approved a new English Foundations course created for ninth-grade students with significant learning disabilities who receive instruction under individualized education programs (IEPs).
Lisa Baker, secondary special-education coordinator, and Carrie Laudatio presented the course as a standards-aligned, full-year English curriculum designed to provide structured yet flexible instruction in reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Baker said the course was written in collaboration with special-education teachers and is intended to build stamina and independence so students can transition into the general-education English sequence in later years.
Baker said the course targets a "very small group of students" placed through the PPT process; she indicated current enrollment is not more than 10 ninth-grade students. Laudatio described the course as organized into four thematic units (My World, Perspectives, Relationships, Looking Ahead) and noted assessments are project-based with high-interest, varied-level texts.
Board members voted by consensus to approve the course. Curriculum staff said placement decisions remain individualized through the IEP/PPT process and the course is intended to prepare students to access general-education classes in subsequent school years.
