The Building Success Program offers three-day workshops designed for middle and high school teachers of English and history. Building Success workshops offer participants the opportunity to interact with workshop leaders and actively explore ways to give students as early as grade 7 analytical skills fundamental to success in AP classes and college level work. Teachers learn strategies to help students engage in active questioning, analysis, and constructing arguments. Workshop topics include assessment, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and vertical planning. Topics in math, English and social studies are introduced in the middle school, leading to an advanced level of achievement in the junior and senior years.
Vertical teams are content specific.
Teachers representing grades 6-12 form a team to align vertically the content and develop teaching strategies specific to a content area. For example, mathematics teachers from grades 6-12 will align the mathematics curriculum from middle school to high school. Vertical Team training will be offered in the content areas of mathematics, English and social studies. The English Vertical Teaming will include teams of English teachers. The Social Studies Vertical Teaming will include only social studies teachers.