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ATL School Reading Plan

10/21/2025

Below you will find the reading plan for The Academy for Teaching and Learning. Please click below to see the strategy and goals for our school.

Reading Plan

For our second quarter service project, we will be collecting items for Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child provides shoeboxes filled with necessities and fun items to children in impoverished countries. We are asking each student to bring $1 AND an item from the list below in new condition to help their class sponsor a box. Each box costs $10 to send, and your monetary donations help us cover that cost. Please send money and items by November 7. If you’d like to make additional donations, we gladly welcome them. Please see the list below for suggested items by grade level.

Kindergarten – a toothbrush
1st grade – play dough
2nd grade – hairbrush
3rd grade – Hat (child sized) or hair accessories (ponytail holders, barrettes, etc.)
4th grade – coloring book or drawing pad
5th grade – stickers
Middle School – small toy (yo-yo, jump rope, Lego set, toy cars, small stuffed animal or doll, ball)

Additional items/suggestions: (for those who’d like to donate more)

Craft or jewelry kit
Binoculars
Puzzles
Sunglasses

Please keep in mind that these items must fit in shoebox when purchasing them. Thanks in advance for your help in making this a success! We look forward to serving others through this project!

Gifted & Talented Testing

10/14/2025

OVERVIEW

The South Carolina Gifted and Talented Grade 2 Assessment is a statewide assessment used to identify student for district gifted and talented programs. Students are identified for this program by demonstrating high performance ability or potential in academic and/or artistic areas.
In accordance with State Board of Education 43-220, the South Carolina Department of Education provides aptitude and achievement assessments for this purpose.
Although the primary purpose of these assessments is to identify students for the gifted and talented program, the student results can be useful to teachers as they examine their instructional practices. These results can also help teachers identify teaching strategies for all students.
All students in Grade 2, including students with disabilities and multilingual learners (MLs), must be administered CogAT (the Cognitive Abilities Test) and the Iowa Assessments, except those students who qualify for the alternate test as determined by their IEPs.

TESTING WINDOW
The state testing window is October 6 - 28, 2025.

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