ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) is an

intensive program designed to develop proficiency in

listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the English

language. The instruction utilizes the TEKS to develop

English language skills.

The Special Education department at Centennial is

committed to providing a full continuum of services for

children with special needs. We believe that every

student should enjoy success in the least restrictive

environment.

The philosophy behind the Active Learning Classroom

is to provide students who are confined by significant

cognitive and/or physical disabilities with an environment

they can access and learn from. Smaller environments

are provided within the classroom that the students can access

and are gradually enlarged to include funtional activities, using

objects and people. Some of these environments are

the Resonance Board, the block center, the ball pit,

water play, the Essef Board, and the Little Room.

Students in the ALC love when their peers come by to

say hello, play, or read a book.

The philosophy of the Experiential Learning Classroom

is to provide students with an environment in which

they can learn through real life experiences and other

activities that are functional in nature. The skills that

are targeted include communication, literacy/academic

skills, motor skills, and daily living skills (including use of

common objects in functional environments). Access to

general education curriculum is through prerequiste skills

targeted at each student's level of need.

Our speech program is instructionally based. Children

with articulation and language impairments are able

to receive services as well as children with voice and

fluency needs. The elementary Speech Language

Pathologist works with children in grades K-5.

Centennial also has a preschool speech and language

center.

PACE classes are involved in some exciting problem solving

activities. In fourth grade the students are solving a

mystery and trading stocks in an on-line market game.

Fifth graders are studying the brain and how it's physiology

affects their personalities and learning styles. They are

also working on stock portfolios and trading on the

Internet Stock Market Game.

Third grade has been working on Tessellation's using the

tools in Hyperstudio.

Second graders are learning to use Micro Worlds.

First grade is doing a potpourri of problem solving activities.