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District details midyear curriculum work: portrait of a graduate, STEAM, LETRS and standards-based grading
Summary
District administrators and directors gave a midyear update on curriculum and instruction, covering alignment to New York State standards, STEAM and arts programming, planned pilot work, LETRS teacher training and a multi-year move toward more consistent, equitable standards-based grading and revised report cards.
At the Jan. 23 West Irondequoit Board of Education meeting, district instructional leaders presented a midyear update on curriculum, instruction and implementation tied to the district’s management plan and the “portrait of a graduate” framework.
Dr. Dunton introduced the update and said the presentation would connect curriculum and instruction work to the district’s strategic plan. The Office of Instruction staff — including Kim, Orlando and Kelly Santura — described a range of initiatives from K–12 literacy to secondary humanities revisions.
Orlando described continuing STEAM and science work: “We are still in the process of building our curriculum or and in a lot of cases, just updating our curriculum 5 through 12 to better align with, current New York…
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