Academics
The Charter School of the Dunes will be the school of choice for our community, with a reputation for excellence built on high academic standards, expectations, and achievement in a safe and welcoming environment.
Our professional educators will commit to creating a culture of life-long learning and collaboration in which all students meet or exceed high academic standards.
Assessments Curriculum
State Reports
CSD Indiana GPS Webpage
Accessibility
Charter School of the Dunes is committed to ensuring that our educational materials and websites are accessible, equitable, and usable to everyone. Accessibility is a core component of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and it is referenced throughout the UDL Guidelines.
We strive to follow best practices based on federal requirements outlined in Section 508—the “Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards,” authorized by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board—as well as recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Charter School of the Dunes strives to ensure that its services, educational materials, information, and methods are accessible to ALL students. Charter School of the Dunes invests a significant resources to help ensure that it’s curricular materials, strategies, and websites are accessible for all students and families, with the strong underlying belief that every person has the right to pursue a free and appropriate public education with as much independence, dignity, equity, comfort and equivalent ease of use as possible.
Charter School of the Dunes continues its efforts to maintain and improve the accessibility of all services in the belief that it is our collective moral obligation to allow seamless, accessible and unhindered use by all people. Despite our efforts, some content may not have yet been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. This may be a result of not having found or identified the most appropriate solution, yet.
If you are experiencing difficulty with any content, materials, or websites or you require assistance with any part of our services, please contact us during normal business hours as detailed below and we will be happy to assist.If you wish to report an accessibility issue, have any questions or need assistance, please contact Charter School of the Dunes:
Contact: Sherry Knight – Director of Special Education and Support Services
Email: sknight@csdunes.org Phone: 219-939-9690 ext. 120
In accordance with SEA 217: Dyslexia Law, as of February 2019:
- Charter School of the Dunes uses Orton Gillingham to intervene for students that may have Dyslexia.
- 72 students have received services that cover dyslexia intervention
- 0 students have been flagged for dyslexia characteristics
Transparency in Education
The Marzano High-Reliability Schools framework does not add a new initiative to school efforts. Many schools are already implementing a wide range of effective initiatives, and many educators are already practicing research-based strategies. The HRS framework does not replace professional learning communities, the Art and Science of Teaching framework, teacher evaluation and development, sound curriculum (including those aligned with the Common Core State Standards), vocabulary instruction, instruction in critical thinking and reasoning skills, formative assessment, standards-based grading and reporting systems, or student mastery systems.
Instead, this framework shows how best practices work together and provides indicators to empower districts and schools to measure their progress on attaining five increasing levels of reliability:
Using the framework and indicators, districts and schools can drive permanent, positive, and significant impacts on student achievement by synthesizing multiple complex initiatives into one harmonious system.
Throughout the school year, we will conduct Marzano student surveys to measure and monitor our progress and effectiveness. The following link is a copy of our student surveys that will be taken during the school year. These surveys are designed to gather feedback directly from the students, which is a crucial part of our evaluation process.
Please complete the following form if you have any questions or concerns regarding the survey.
HIGH ABILITY
The High Ability Program at CSD will support the mission by:
· Challenging students to reach their full potential
· Guiding students to be creative, independent, critical thinkers,
and problem solvers
· Guiding students to set both academic and personal goals
· Supporting students in their social and emotional needs
· Providing students with leadership roles and responsibilities
· Engaging students in problem based learning and cooperative
learning activities to develop a sense of teamwork and responsibility
*High Ability Program Goals*
· Goal 1- Implement an unbiased identification process for students
in grades K-8.
· Goal 2- Provide professional development opportunities for
educators to learn how to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of
high ability students.
· Goal 3-Provide High Ability services for identified students in
grades K-8.
*Indiana Code *
At CSD, our High Ability Program will follow the Indiana Code 20-36-1,
which states:
Sec. 3. “High ability student” means a student who:
(1) performs at or shows the potential for performing at an outstanding
level of accomplishment in at least one (1) domain when compared with other
students of the same age, experience, or environment; and (2) is
characterized by exceptional gifts, talents, motivation, or interests.
Contact: *Sherry Knight – High Ability Coordinator*
Email: *sknight@csdunes.org* Phone: *219-939-9690 ext. 120*