Student Resources

Tutoring

Christ the King School has one part-time faculty member who works with kindergarten through third grade in reading using the Orton-Gillingham method of tutoring, one part-time faculty member who works with students in grades two through eight in math, and one full-time faculty member works with students needing assistance or enrichment in kindergarten through eighth grade in all areas of the curriculum.

Additionally, space is provided for non-faculty tutors who contract privately with families whose children need the Orton-Gillingham or Lindamood-Bell methods of language-based learning. Contact our school counselor, Ms. LaRossa, for a list of tutoring services in the Atlanta community.

CKS Homework Lab and study hall

Our goal is to support students as they build organization skills and to help students finish most of their homework before they head home. This program is fully staffed by CKS teachers for students in grades 2-8.

Counseling Program

The counseling department at Christ the King School supports the mission of the school by providing academic support as well as social, spiritual, and emotional guidance for students. Counseling services provided at Christ the King School include...

Academic Support

Organizational, study, and test-taking skills.
Classroom accommodations are provided for those students who have a psycho-educational evaluation on file.
Referrals for educational evaluations, tutoring, or other services.
A partnership is created between school counselors and resource teachers to provide academic success for every student.
Organize and attend parent/teacher meetings.
Student Success Team (SST)
- The School Counselors and Curriculum Coordinator work in tandem to advocate for and provide additional educational support to meet a child’s individual needs, to initiate and implement goals and strategies, and to monitor progress towards these goals.

Personal and Social/Emotional Support

Classroom guidance lessons are taught six times a year at each grade level. Topics include growth mindset, how to be a good friend, the world of work, and more.
Responsive services such as individual counseling, small group counseling, conflict resolution, and outside counseling referrals are provided.
Guidance is given for healthy peer relationships, coping strategies, effective social skills, problem solving, and conflict resolution.

Career Development

Speakers from the Greater Atlanta area, as well as past and present CKS parents, participate in our annual Career Day for 8th Grade students.

Admissions

Assists in the admissions testing process for prospective students.
Counselors, in conjunction with the Director of Admissions, manage the Student Ambassador program for grades 2-8. Each new 2nd-8th grade student to CKS receives a trained Student Ambassador who assists with assimilating our new students.

Standardized Testing

Counselors organize and facilitate the testing of the Iowa Assessment and Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT).
Seventh grade students are identified for Duke TIP through the counseling department.
Counselors provide information on the Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT).

ACRE
The NCEA Information for Growth: Assessment of Children/Youth Religious Education (NCEA IFG: ACRE) is annually administered to all Archdiocesan students, both Catholic and non-Catholic, in grades 5 and 8. The ACRE is produced by the National Catholic Educational Association and serves as an integrated approach to assessment offering both faith knowledge (cognitive domain) as well as beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and practices (affective domain) sections. Results of the ACRE are used by Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta to guide the implementation and development of religious instruction and formation.

Iowa Assessments
CKS students are tested annually in kindergarten through eighth grades using the Iowa Assessments. This national examination serves as a standard to assist Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta in assessing the delivery and mastery of the curriculum. Student performance on the Iowa Assessments is utilized by schools to inform annual goals, to guide professional development efforts, and as an indicator in the pursuit of continuous improvement.

CogAT Testing
The Cognitive Abilities Test is administered to students in grades two, five, and seven. The CogAT is intended to estimate students’ learned reasoning and problem solving abilities through a battery of verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal test items.

National Data
According to the results of the 2007 NAEP Catholic School students scored higher than the national public school average in every category in both grades 4 and 8, by as many as 21 points. According to the 2008 results of the SAT students in religiously affiliated schools scored higher than the national public school average in every category, by as many as 65 points.

Local Data
Following the guidance of the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA), archdiocesan Catholic schools do not post standardized test scores. Standardized test scores, as used by archdiocesan schools, are administered for the purpose of analyzing individual student growth and informing instructional decisions and are not intended to be a measure of overall school quality. Archdiocese of Atlanta achievement testing information may be found on the Office of Catholic Schools website.

Media Center

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

The goal of a good school library program is to make students information literate: to teach them the skills needed to access information, in both print and non-print environments, in an age of burgeoning knowledge.

Kindergarten, pre-first, first and second grades access books from the Media Center weekly. Each class is read one or more stories appropriate to grade level. The Media Specialist teaches author, title, illustrator, publisher, checks for listening skills, general comprehension and instructs in library procedures, such as book care and making online book holds for checkout.

Library skills instruction is given to third, fourth and fifth grade weekly. All grades learn research skills in the course of research projects in various subjects across the curriculum. Our goal is to familiarize our students with the process of information retrieval so that they will be able to enter any library with confidence in their ability to locate information.

Destiny is the online patron access catalog which can be accessed on any computer in the school, as well as, from home. Destiny not only catalogs student books and faculty DVDs, but also gives access to ebooks on Destiny Discover and research websites through Webpath Express.

Students may access the following databases at school and at home: World Book Online, EBSCOhost, Brainpop, Brainpop Jr., TrueFlix and ScienceFlix. To enhance reading comprehension, Christ the King School uses the Accelerated Reader program with access to over 150,000 quizzes.

Digital Safety

With the many recent advances in technology, digital safety is a topic weighing heavily on the minds of parents today. We are committed to educating our students regarding the many responsibilities that come with technology and the numerous modes of communication available to us today.

In a continuing effort to raise awareness on the matter, we are posting a variety of helpful resources for our parent population. These are just a sampling of sites available that address the issues of digital safety and cyberbullying.

Resources

Resources are posted by the Committee for Children:
http://www.cfchildren.org/bullying-prevention/related-articles
http://www.cfchildren.org/bullying-prevention/related-articles/keeping-youth-safe-online

Reference information regarding cyberbullying and resources for staying safe online:
http://cyberbullying.org/resources/reference-materials/
http://cyberbullying.org/resources/parents/

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services maintains the following website containing helpful information about cyberbullying and what parents can do to help:
http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/
http://www.stopbullying.gov/what-you-can-do/parents/index.html

The National Crime Prevention Council provides a wide variety of topics regarding personal safety, including internet safety and information on cyberbullying:
http://www.ncpc.org/