Math Curriculum under Review

Over the summer the General Assembly approved new educational reform laws for our state. One of the laws creates statewide standards and curriculum framework for six core academic subjects (math, English language arts, science and technology, history and social studies, world languages and arts) that must be developed by the end of the year. The curriculum will be required across the state, and the state will be responsible for providing professional support to local districts to make these changes.

We are partnering with the RI Department of Education and EdReports, a leader in improving education and providing reports on k-12 instructional materials, to evaluate a new high quality math curriculum for our students. Our math curriculum adoption process began in September. Our committee is led by Dr. Duva and includes Math Curriculum Leader/Teacher Ms. Kittredge, Teachers Mr. Juhnowski, Mrs. Simoes & Mr. Alfred, and Melrose Principal Mrs. Werner is also part of the committee. As we listened to our teachers their most important instructional beliefs in math are strong number sense, foundation of basic facts, differentiation, application to real life, problem solving, and that students love math.

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