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.

Type of Work Focus: 

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

Description of Work Focus: 

• Working on a developing cross divisional writing program that builds on what is done in the previous grade. We will also be working within each division to build a more consistent approach to how we how teach and discuss writing and research. We will also be looking out how geography is taught within each division.  

Schedule for Work: We hope to have two half day PD workshops.