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Union Vale visit: Arlington board highlights student engagement, unified sports and curricular pilots
Summary
At a November meeting the Arlington Central School District board heard Union Vale Middle School staff and students describe team-building activities, an expanding unified sports program, a student-run Thanksgiving food drive and pilots of new ELA and math curricula, including IXL.
The Arlington Central School District board on Nov. 1 heard a presentation from Union Vale Middle School staff and students outlining several efforts aimed at improving student engagement and continuity.
Union Vale administrators described grade-level team-building activities — including a sixth-grade rock-climbing outing and field trips — and classroom approaches that emphasize iterative, project-based learning. "Students tweak it and try it again," an administrator said while describing a magnet-run machine project used to teach engineering concepts. School staff also described science work that asked students to…
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