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Our nurse visits Culverdale every day for a portion of the school day. Nurses are on site at scheduled times throughout the year to conduct hearing and vision screenings. Those dates will be communicated to parents the weekly Thursday folder. The school district funds three days per week (4 hours) of health clerk time, depending on enrollment. Our PTA supplements that funding to allow health clerk coverage every day. Additionally, the office staff is CPR and First Aid trained. We ask for parent cooperation to keep your child home if they are ill. We do contact parents when their child becomes ill at school. |
The goal of this program is to provide non-English speaking students with an opportunity to acquire English language proficiency in a supportive environment prior to placement in the regular classroom. All classroom teachers at Culverdale have had specific training to teach strategies to support second language learners. |
| The school psychologist is at Culverdale two days per week to provide assistance for behavioral, social/emotional, and cognitive problems of students. Diagnosis of student needs, support for parents and consultation for staff are available. | The goal of the Title I program is to support students not yet meeting grade level proficiency in reading or math. At Culverdale these programs include Read 180 and Read Naturally. |
This program is designed to assist children who demonstrate significant deficits in academic skills. A student can qualify for this support by demonstrating a specific learning disability or a significant discrepancy between ability and achievement. After a student is identified, an individualized educational program is designed to assist the student to make reasonable academic gains. The Resource Specialist implements the instruction to support the classroom instruction. |
with the students at the beginning of the school year to make the selection of an instrument or vocal groups. The Irvine Public Schools Foundation supports this program and also rents instruments to students. Students in 3rd grade receive one forty-minute lesson every other week. |
The Speech and Language Specialist is available to diagnose and provide therapy for students who demonstrate difficulty in speech, language development, and language-based skills. Students who qualify for this program have an Individualized Educational Plan designed for them and receive individual or small-group assistance as appropriate. |
Students in grades K-8 receive 8 one-hour lessons from the art specialist each year. |
This program is designed to serve students at grades 4-6 who have been identified as having exceptional learning abilities. Identified students are clustered as small groups within the general education classroom. This allows the classroom teacher to provide extended learning opportunities that are varied in depth, complexity, novelty and/or acceleration. |
All 6th grade students receive 18 hours of instruction from an Irvine Police Department DARE officer in this program. |