Would you like to know more about what your child will be learning? Visit the Indiana Department of Education's Indiana Academic Standards website to view each course's standards.

English Language Arts Priority Standards

Mathematics Priority Standards

Science and Computer Science Priority Standards

Social Studies Priority Standards

Teaching and Learning

• To acquire the skills necessary for College and Career Readiness, Lake Ridge New Tech Schools partners with the New Tech Network & over 350 schools to provide students with deeper learning experiencess to prepare them for life beyond high school. We have 4 pillars that guide our model.

1. College & Career Readiness Outcomes: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools is committed to preparing all students for postsecondary success. 
2. Supportive Culture: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools is committed to providing a safe, supportive, and caring school community in which students and teachers take ownwershp in the learning experience and school environment.
3. Meaningful Instruction: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools is committed to providing instrucational approaches that are authentic, require complex thinking and problem solving, through relevant and real-world instructional experiences.  
4. Purposeful Assessment: Assessment and grading practices are purposeful and used to inform teacher instruction, emphasize individual growth, and demonstrate progress towards college and career readiness. 

• The Curriculum Model has 5 focus areas.

1. Knowledge & Thinking: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools curricula is based on the Indiana Academic Standards. Students engage in learning that develops their skills to reason, problem-solve, develop sound arugments or decisions, and create new ideas by using appropriate sources and applying the knowledge and skills (Indiana Academic Standards). Through this process, they are able to think critically and become knowledgeable about the world around them. 
2. Oral Communication: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes that developing oral communication skills is vital to academic, college, and career success. Students are empowered to advocate for themselves, ask relevant questions, and communicate clearly. 
3. Written Communication: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes the ability to effectively communicate knowledge amd thinking through writing is essential for college and career success. Students build their written communication skills and are empowered to effectively communicate their ideas, share their voice, and advocate for their learning by organizing and structuring their ideas in writing while using discipline appropriate language and conventions. 
4. Collaboration: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes that an individual needs to be able to contribute to group tasks for college and career success. Students are empowered to develop their collaboration skills with others and contribute to a learning community. 
5. Agency: Lake Ridge New Tech Schools believes that an individual needs to the ability to make decisions, set goals, and plan and carry out next steps based on a world that is always learning and changing for college and career success. Students are empowered to self-reflect and develop skills of persistence.

Addtional Curriculum Resources

• Lake Ridge New Tech Schools utlizes ECHO as our primary means of communicating cuccicula in a daily basis. Through ECHO, parents and students can access curricular resouces such as announcements, grades, course learning modules, course agendas, assignments, assessments, rubrics, etc. Parents can access their child's ECHO by using their child's login information. 
  • Calumet New Tech High School ECHO
  • Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School ECHO
  • Longfellow New Tech Elementary School ECHO
• Indiana College Core
  • Calumet New Tech High School partners with Ivy Tech to offer students the Indiana College Core. 
  • Learn more about earning up to 30 college credit hours here and by reaching out to the High School Counselors.

K-8 Reading & Writing Curriculum 

The name and the publisher of Lake Ridge New Tech Schools K-8 Reading and Writing Curriculum

• K-3 Explicit Phonics Curriculum Fundations published by Wilson Reading and Heggerty Phonemic Awareness published by Heggerty
• 4-12 Explict Phonics Supplemental Tier 2 Just Words published by Wilson Reading, Fundations published by Wilson Reading, and Heggerty Phonemic Awareness publshed by Heggerty
• K-3 Geodes Reading Curriculum 
• K-8 Wit & Wisdom ELA & Writing Curriculum published by Great Minds 

K-12 Mathematics Curriculum

Lake Ridge New Tech Schools using the following Mathematics curriculum K-12:

• K-12 Illustrative Math published by Imagine Learning

State Assessments - Please click titles to for more information.

• State Assessment Website
• IREAD-3
• ILEARN 3-8, Biology
• I AM
• WIDA
• High School Assessment (SAT, PSAT, Biology ECA, Naturalization Exam)

Local Assessments

Lake Ridge New Tech Schools uses the following local assessements:

• NWEA Map Growth K-12 for Math and Reading
• NWEA Reading Fluency (Dyslexia Screener) K-2 (Parent Screener Letter / Spanish) 
• Amplify DIBELS K-8 
• CogAT Cognitive Abilities Test K, 2, 5, and 8 
• College Board Advanced Placement AP 
• College Board PSAT 8, 9, 10, & 11

Parent & Family Resources - Please click the tiltes for more information

• SAT Suite of Assessments
  • Information for Families and Students
  • Practice Tests at College Board
• IREAD
  • 3rd Grade Retention & Good Cause Exemption Process Information
  • 3rd Grade Summer School Requirements Frequently Asked Questions
  • IREAD Frequently Asked Questions
  • Practice questions at the IREAD Released Item Repository
  • 3rd Grade IREAD Score Report Example for Families (English / Spanish)
  • 2nd Grade IREAD Score Report Example for Families (English / Spanish)
• ILEARN
  • ILEARN for Families (English / Spanish)
  • ILEARN Checkpoint Guidance for Families (Must create an account to access at the IDOE Learning Lab)
• I AM
  • Participation Guidance (English / Spanish)
  • Participation Frequently Asked Questions (English / Spanish)
• WIDA