Artifact 1C: Standards
Middle School Comprehension Portfolio - Louis Stevens III I have recently begun a new position as a 7 th /8 th grade English language arts teacher at Toledo Preparatory Academy in Toledo, Ohio. TPA is a public charter operated by the parent program Pansophic Learning and Accel Schools. These are common in the Ohio area, with over forty such buildings in the state. The school is rather small, with approximately ninety students per grade, and I am the only language arts teacher for both grades. The achievement level is low, but this is in part due to the effects of arrested development caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. The school has very little data collected because this is its first year of operation, growing from a simple elementary school. Consequently, much of the demographical information is not available to me. The school has a population that is primarily African-American and many students are classified as social-economically disadvantaged. Attendance is at tim...