Submitted by: Tom Murphy

Focus areas:

• Documenting the “story” of the preK-12 curriculum
• Doing a professional development “deep dive” around some aspect of subject related progressive practice. This could draw on within department expertise and/or work with an outside consultant

We continued to work on our cross divisional writing program. The high school has the additional task of developing our standards for the move to standards based grading. We will role out standards in the year long 9th and 10th grade classes. In addition, Michele will work on developing a model for one of his electives. Middle school teachers were interested in examining their curriculum. They want to explore whether the focus of their social studies program was best for the age groups being served.