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Field Trips
GCS teachers plan frequent field trips that
extend the learning environment outside the
classroom and into the community. A
designated field trip budget enables each class
to take several trips annually. Field trip
highlights include the following
standards−aligned excursions:
- Re−enactment of colonial life and the Revolutionary
War at Riley’s Farm
- Study
of transportation at the Peterson
Automotive Museum
- Mexican
Folklorica concert at Royce Hall
- Dance
performances of the Kirov Ballet, the
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the
Lula Washington Dance Theater
- Interactive
exhibits relating to solar energy
and aerodynamics at the California Science
Center and the Air and Space Exhibit
- All−school
trips to theater productions: “The
Enchanted Sleeping Beauty” and “Aladdin”
- Train
trip to San Juan Capistrano to tour the
mission, to make adobe tiles and to plant
seeds in the mission gardens
- An
interactive educational exhibit at the
Skirball Museum—“Our Los Angeles:
Celebrate!, a display that explores ethnic
diversity in Los Angeles
- A
Los Angeles Symphonic Jazz band concert
at the San Gabriel Civic Auditorium
Field trips and posted community event bulletin
boards also inform students and parents of
cultural events and activities and natural
settings that they can access on weekends and
vacations with their families.
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After School Program
GCS offers an After−School Program for 45
students and maintains a waiting list for interested
familis. GCS administrators refer families to
neighborhood programs when students cannot be
accommodated. In the After School Program,
students participate in clubs—sports, arts and
crafts activities, dance—and complete their
homework with assistance as needed.
All After−School Teachers are NCLB qualified
in
compliance with the California After School
Education and Safety (ASES) Grant.
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Tutoring Program
In addition to intervention programs offered during
school hours, Gabriella Charter School currently
provides tutoring twice a week to referred students
who are less than proficient in English−language
arts and/or mathematics.
Community Volunteers
GCS has mobilized a team of community
volunteers, professionals with graduate degrees, to
commit one day a week to working in its
classrooms. Teachers closely supervise these
volunteers and provide them with resources and
instructional strategies. The volunteers work with
individual students or small groups to offer
intervention in reading, writing or mathematics
based on classroom performance, benchmark
testing and annual STAR assessments.
Additionally, a licensed clinical psychologist
volunteers one morning a week to counsel students
or families referred by teachers, administrators or
the Student Success Team.
Volunteers from the Art People supplement the
GCS art teacher’s instruction by providing
additional weekly art appreciation and multi−media
visual arts. Art teachers and classroom teachers
frequently collaborate to create projects that
Integrate arts and academics.
GCS has welcomed high school and college
volunteers from Camino Nuevo Charter Academy,
Belmont High School and Bishop Conity High School
to support GCS school−wide educational goals.
They have provided tutoring, supervised interactive
assessment, ( i.e., blending, sight words, math
facts) and homework assistance in the
after−school program.
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