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Board hears updates on curriculum writing, student voice work and plans for redeploying climate survey
Summary
District staff described curriculum writing work, building‑thinking classrooms strategies, efforts to capture student voice, and a plan to redeploy the safe school climate survey to parents and families in October with tactics to raise response rates.
District curriculum and school leaders updated the Cheshire School District Board of Education on summer curriculum writing, professional development and steps to increase participation in the district’s safe school climate survey.
Assistant Superintendent (title used in the meeting) and other staff described a summer curriculum writing institute that combined and revised third‑ and fourth‑grade opinion writing units, embedded building‑thinking‑classroom instructional strategies across K–12, and produced student‑friendly and teacher‑norming rubrics. Presenters said the units were designed so teachers could pick them up and use them with minimal additional preparation.
Staff highlighted the role…
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