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=St. Leon Armenian School Curriculum Project=

**The mission of St. Leon Armenian School is to teach our children to love, appreciate and embrace the Armenian Language, its Culture and History. To learn in so far as possible, to speak, read and write the Armenian Language in a nurturing and loving Christian atmosphere. To use the best possible teaching methods, materials and techniques in accomplishing our goal of learning the Armenian Language.**

**Current Year Registration Forms and Calendars can be found at** []
A few words about language taken from a report titled "How Many Languages Are There in the World?" published by the Linguistic Society of America. []

=//"Fewer than there were last month..."//= //"...Whatever the world’s linguistic diversity at the present, it is steadily declining, as local forms of speech increasingly become moribund before the advance of the major languages of world civilization. When a language ceases to be learned by young children, its days are clearly numbered, and we can predict with near certainty that it will not survive the death of the current native speakers.// //… Some would say that the death of a language is much less worrisome than that of a species. After all, are there not instances of languages that died and were reborn, like Hebrew? And in any case, when a group abandons its native language, it is generally for another that is more economically advantageous to them: why should we question the wisdom of that choice?// //…When a language dies, a world dies with it, in the sense that a community’s connection with its past, its traditions and its base of specific knowledge are all typically lost as the vehicle linking people to that knowledge is abandoned. This is not a necessary step, however, for them to become participants in a larger economic or political order. For further information about the issues involved in language endangerment, see the Linguistic Society of America’s FAQ “What is an endangered language?”//



__**Year IV PLC Goals [2012-13]**__
 * Activities of our Professional Learning Community
 * Create school wide themes for lesson plan/resources for Levels K and 5
 * Update St Leon Armenian School Vocabulary Curriculum Map in an online environment
 * Technology
 * Invest in technology tools and resources
 * Develop skills in using technology tools in the classroom

__**Year III PLC Goals [2011-12]**__
 * Activities of our Professional Learning Community
 * Create appropriate lesson plan/resources for Levels K and 5
 * Update St Leon Armenian School Vocabulary Curriculum Map in an online environment
 * Technology
 * Invest in technology tools and resources
 * Develop skills in using technology tools in the classroom

__**Year II PLC Goals** **[2010-11]**__
 * Teacher participation: by all levels
 * Activities of our Professional Learning Community
 * Develop a draft St Leon Armenian School Vocabulary Curriculum Map in an online environment
 * Technology
 * Invest in technology tools and resources
 * Develop skills in using technology tools in the classroom

__**Year I PLC Goals [2009-10]**__
 * Teacher participation: 1st, 3rd, 6th and 7th levels
 * Activities of our Professional Learning Community
 * **Develop an appreciation of the kind of teaching and learning environment we want to create**
 * Student Engagement
 * Student Centered Learning
 * 21st Century Citizens
 * **Develop an understanding for Curriculum Design**
 * Technology
 * Invest in technology tools and resources
 * Develop skills in using technology tools in the classroom