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Students and families need connectivity to participate safely and responsibly in today’s online world. Here’s how AT&T is helping bridge the “digital divide” between people who can take advantage of all the internet has to offer, and those who can’t.

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  • Digital Navigators are being trained across the country to help communities join the online world by providing support for at-home connectivity, computers, and digital skills.

    With the Public Library Association, we’re developing resources and workshops to raise awareness of Federal Broadband Benefits and improve digital skills.

    Learn more about AT&T’s work to help manage families’ online experience.

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  • Many people without internet at home overlook the benefits of signing up. But increasingly, connectivity provides access to essential services and opens a world of resources that can support learning. That's why AT&T created The Achievery, an innovative and free educational platform which offers standards-aligned curriculum and entertaining videos for K-12 students everywhere they learn – at home, in the community or in their classrooms.
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The Sunshine Cottage Day School provides children who are deaf or hard of hearing the auditory-oral foundation to become independent and active participants of the hearing world. Our children utilize state-of-the-art hearing technology to develop listening and spoken language to communicate naturally and effectively without the use of sign language.

We are a Texas Education Agency (TEA) approved non-public, non-profit school for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as children with typical hearing. All children enrolled in the day-school program benefit from a research-based curriculum to develop both language and academic skills in an experience-based environment.

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Sunshine Cottage, a listening and spoken language school, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement, OPTIONSchools International, and is a Texas Education Agency Approved non-public school. We accept students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin.

Families of students who are deaf or hard of hearing are charged on a sliding scale according to the previous year’s income.

Students with typical hearing are charged a flat monthly fee.

Scholarships are available.

Monday: 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM Thursday: 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM Friday: 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM Saturday: CLOSED Sunday: CLOSED
Mark Eads
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Kiz Mannheimer
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Project Transformation (PT) is a summer out-of-school program that brings together the 3 Cs: Children, College Students, and Churches.

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Being a Reader™ provides comprehensive reading instruction, systematically developing both foundational skills and comprehension. This research-based program integrates rich literacy experiences with explicit social skills instruction and activities that foster students’ growth as responsible, caring, and collaborative people. 

Through an engaging combination of whole-class, small-group, and individualized instruction—including daily independent reading with teacher conferring—the Being a Reader program not only develops students’ reading proficiency, but also their love for reading and talking about books.

Being a Reader can be implemented as powerful, stand-alone Tier 1 instruction for grades K–2 or serve as a seamlessly integrated program within our comprehensive K–5 English Language Arts curriculum, Collaborative Literacy.

How It Works:
Being a Reader follows a continuum of reading development to meet each student at their instructional point of need and guide them to their next level of literacy through an engaging combination of whole-class, small-group, and individualized approaches. 

Each grade level includes either seven or eight instructional units organized around two instructional strands: Reading and Word Study.

The strands work together to develop comprehension, fluency, decoding strategies, word analysis, spelling, vocabulary, and independent reading. Progress monitoring and other assessment tools help teachers make informed, targeted instructional decisions to ensure reading success for every child.

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Dawn Castilleja Send email
(817) 320-7928
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Comprehensive Writing Instruction

Create a classroom culture of writing and collaboration.

Whether implemented as a standalone program or seamlessly integrated as a module in our comprehensive ELA curriculum, Collaborative Literacy, Being a Writer is a proven, research-based writing curriculum for grades K–5.

Combining a writing process approach with guided instruction, Being a Writer is student-centered, rigorous writing instruction for students in grades K–5. The program’s dual goals – fostering students’ growth as capable, skilled writers and caring, respectful members of their classroom community – make Being a Writer unique among writing curricula.

Grades: K-5

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Dawn Castilleja Send email
(817) 320-7928
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Collaborative Classroom Book Clubs for Grades 3-6.

Support Student Literacy, Strengthen Independent Reading, and Empower Small Group Learning.

When students love books, they can’t put them down and can’t resist talking about them. Inspire a love of literacy and explore a whole new way for readers to learn together through Collaborative Classroom Book Clubs.

Utilizing research-based best practices for small-group reading, Collaborative Classroom Book Clubs provide the foundational lessons for setting up independent, student-led book clubs and a variety of mini-lessons that can be used to support and deepen book discussions.

Great for use as either a companion to Collaborative Literacy or as a stand-alone program, Collaborative Classroom Book Clubs for grades 3-6 combines great books, differentiated small-group and individualized reading, and social skills development.

What’s Included:

  • A Teacher’s Manual containing lessons for Small-group Reading and Book Clubs
  • Sets of carefully selected, grade-appropriate fiction and nonfiction texts used during the lessons
  • Digital resources including articles, assessment forms, and images

Grades: 3-6.

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Dawn Castilleja Send email
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Discover the transformative power of Collaborative Literacy—a comprehensive K–5 curriculum that builds strong and knowledgeable readers and writers, creates vibrant and caring classroom communities and empowers teachers to deepen their knowledge and expertise. 

Comprehensive, research-based reading instruction that systematically develops both foundational skills and comprehension

High-quality, high-interest fiction and nonfiction texts selected not only to support the instructional focus of each lesson but also for equitable representation

Knowledge building through the integration of reading and writing experiences. Students actively foster their curiosity, build their knowledge, and become experts on topics that truly matter to them.

English learner pre-teaching, extension, and point-of-need supports that help teachers provide scaffolding and prepare English learners to participate confidently in lessons

Integrated social-skills development that creates a caring, supportive classroom community and nurtures students’ sense of responsibility for their own learning and behavior

Embedded, continuous professional learning that empowers teachers to expand their content knowledge and deepen their pedagogical expertise as they teach

Formative and summative assessments that support instructional decision-making for the class, groups of students with similar points of need, and individual students

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Dawn Castilleja Send email
(817) 320-7928
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Whole-Class Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary:

Making Meaning provides a full year of research-based, whole-class reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, using increasingly complex texts across a wide range of genres for grades 3–5.

The program offers complete support for daily independent reading, integrated development of social skills, regular student-teacher conferences, and optional integrated book clubs.

Making Meaning can be implemented as powerful, stand-alone instruction for grades 3–5 or serve as a seamlessly integrated program within our comprehensive K–5 English Language Arts curriculum, Collaborative Literacy.

Grades: 3-5.

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Dawn Castilleja Send email
(817) 320-7928
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SIPPS (Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words) is a research-based decoding intervention program proven to help new and struggling readers in grades K-12 build skills and confidence for fluent, independent reading.

The SIPPS program provides a structured literacy approach to foundational skills instruction through explicit instructional routines focused on phonological awareness, spelling-sounds, and sight words.

The systematic scope and sequence supports students who struggle with decoding, including students identified with dyslexia, in an accelerative approach. Each SIPPS level corresponds to a specific stage of reading development: simple alphabetic, spelling pattern, and polysyllabic/morphemic. Daily SIPPS lessons and reading practice in appropriate texts help readers achieve automaticity and accuracy, which in turn allow them to focus on comprehension.

Whether used as a stand-alone intervention or integrated to support foundational skills in Collaborative Literacy programs, the SIPPS program allows students to:

  • Respond orally during the foundational skills routines and receive immediate, strategic feedback.
  • Demonstrate mastery of learning at regular intervals through criterion-referenced tests.
  • Read controlled-vocabulary text to practice the words and concepts taught.
  • Engage with books at appropriate levels to build fluency and increase confidence.

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Dawn Castilleja Send email
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The staff at King’s Christian Academy is committed to lead by example. We strive to focus on both academic and spiritual growth.

Our staff has over 25 years of combined experience in Christian education. We are born-again believers called by the Lord to teach and serve children in a loving, nurturing, and safe environment.

We offer:

  • Daily assemblies and a weekly Chapel service to instill the importance of honoring God and his authority.
  • Prayer, worship, and a time of encouragement which is a vital part of our students’ life.
  • Manageable teacher-student ratio
  • Classes grades K4– 12th using the diverse options the ABeka curriculum has to offer.
  • Core subjects, Spanish, Physical Education, Music, and Art
  • Tuition is low.
  • After-school care is also available.
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K4 through 12th Grade

Tuition-based; affordable

Monday: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Tuesday: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Wednesday: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Thursday: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Friday: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday: CLOSED Sunday: CLOSED
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Gina Delallo
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Emily Cayuso
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2.21 miles away, 600 Soledad, San Antonio, TX, 78205 , D1
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San Antonio Public Library locations have resumed normal service every day of the week.

  • Contact-Free Pickup and free outdoor WiFi remain available.
  • Click here for hours and other details.
  • Free Wi-Fi is available outside of 28 of its 30 locations daily from 7:30 AM to 10:30 PM in an effort to serve those who do not have reliable broadband internet access at home. (The two exceptions are the Pruitt Branch Library and Briscoe Portal at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.)
  • Texana/Genealogy services are still available only by phone, email, or through Ask MySAPL.

580,257 volumes, including an extensive collection of Non-fiction located on the 2nd floor, Fiction located on the 5th floor, Media, Express and the Latino Collection and Resource Center located on the 1st floor, and Texana/Genealogy located on the 6th floor.

Special needs services and collections-including equipment are also available at the library-including the recent addition of the Children's Low Vision Reading Room on the 3rd floor.

The library contains an art gallery on the 1st floor with exhibits scheduled thought the year. As you explore the library you will also notice a number of art pieces from the library's collection situated throughout the library's seven-floor. On the 2nd floor, you can find the Marie Swartz Art Resource Center, which in partnership with the Southwest School of Art serves as the library of record for the School's BFA degree program.

VIA: 3, 4, 90, 95, 96, 97

Adult Changing Station available on the first floor of the Central Library across from the circulation desk.

Outside Wi-Fi Access 7:30 AM - 10:30 PM

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Monday: 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Tuesday: 12:00 AM - 8:00 PM Wednesday: 10:00 PM - 6:00 PM Thursday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Friday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Sunday: CLOSED
Haley Holmes
(210) 207-2500
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2.21 miles away, 600 Soledad, San Antonio, TX, 78205 , D1
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San Antonio Public Library locations have resumed normal service every day of the week.

  • Contact-Free Pickup and free outdoor WiFi remain available.
  • Click here for hours and other details.
  • Free Wi-Fi is available outside of 28 of its 30 locations daily from 7:30 AM to 10:30 PM to serve those who do not have reliable broadband internet access at home. (The two exceptions are the Pruitt Branch Library and Briscoe Portal at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.)
  • Texana/Genealogy services are still available only by phone, email, or through Ask MySAPL.

This branch is undergoing renovations. Please verify services and hours before visiting.

Since 1995, the Texana/Genealogy Department has been located on the sixth floor of the Central Library at 600 Soledad Street downtown. The department occupies approximately 10,000 square feet. Within the Department are:

  • approximately 60,000 microforms
  • 75,000 books 
  • 110 drawers of archival files 
  • 11 map cabinets 
  • 300 cubic feet of archival collections.

Texana/Genealogy services are available by appointment, please call 210-207-2500, email, or through Ask MySAPL.

Monday: CLOSED Tuesday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Wednesday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Thursday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Friday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Sunday: CLOSED
Heather Ferguson
(210) 207-2559
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Laura Stanley
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This program is active from April 2, 2024 until May 14, 2024

True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are, it requires us to be who we are. To believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. 

 

Using Brené Brown's book, we will redefine what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization rife with perfectionism and pleasing.  We'll also share and explore where we’re experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection hiding in ideological bunkers or fit in rather than showing up as our true selves and braving the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism.

Register at: ahumc.og/courses

*Starts at 6 pm on Tuesdays
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