Arizona Autism Charter Schools, Inc.

Access to the N2Y curriculum and subscriptions for student curriculum and teacher resources to support learning gaps and knowledge attainment. Progress is being monitored on a weekly basis by observations in classrooms on a weekly basis coaching conservations with teacher's biweekly, additional supported determined by quarterly benchmarks with a student ratio of 1:12. The underserved population that AZACS is trying to reach is special education students with a population of some underserved Hispanic and low income families.
Arizona Autism Charter Schools (AZACS) uses strategies grounded in the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to help students minimize maladaptive behaviors such as aggression, elopement and work refusal. Many of these behaviors are associated with the symptoms of autism, such as lack of functional communication, sensory disorders, and developmental delays. To help implement ABA strategies AZACS will use ESSER III funds to pay for summer training and curriculum work to ensure teachers are ready to support students with learning gaps and to promote social and emotional well being in the new school year. This curriculum will provide teachers guidance on how to support students to cope with fears and address social and emotional stress from daily activities and home life during. Progress is being monitored on a weekly basis by observations in classrooms on a weekly basis coaching conservations with teacher's biweekly, additional supported determined by quarterly benchmarks with a student ratio of 1:12. The underserved population that AZACS is trying to reach is special education students with a population of some underserved Hispanic and low-income families.

Arizona Autism Charter School had staff that taught extended year for one week in July to address learning loss and implementation of Social and Emotional Learning using N2Y curriculum and PEAK. We will be targeting a SPED Population with a subset of Hispanic.
Corrective Reading- SRA materials to be used in K-5th grade for Tier III interventions during the regular school day. Corrective Reading - SRA materials will be used in each K-5 classroom for Tier III interventions during the regular day. The student to teacher ratio in each session is 1 teacher to 3 students. The classroom teacher will be planning and running the intervention sessions that will happen each day. We will be targeting a SPED Population with a subset of Hispanic
Understanding the challenges that our students have faced over the last two years has driven the decision to budget $10,000 for the salary of a school counselor (Rev. #1- 2.18.22 removed .5 counselor to add in 1.0 Social worker) for the 2021-2022 school year. AZACS recognizes the strong connection between a student's social and emotional status and the ability to learn. For many of our students their learning loss may be directly tied to the struggle of 2020 and beyond. This position will address the social and emotional needs of the students, work on and provide strategies to support students in unique living circumstances that impact their adjustment to school, work alongside other school mental health staff and school administration to provide crisis supports as deemed necessary. This includes students who are identified as needing special education services with a subset of Hispanic. The counselor (Rev. #1- 2.18.22 removed .5 counselor to add in 1.0 Social worker) to teacher ratio will be 300 students to 1, but the counselor (Rev. #1- 2.18.22 removed .5 counselor to add in 1.0 Social worker) will have one on one sessions. The counselor (Rev. #1- 2.18.22 removed .5 counselor to add in 1.0 Social worker) will support students with mental health issues as well as support the Social Emotional Learning implemented by the ABA staff.