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District proposes science specialists and timetable change to free 40 minutes for literacy
Summary
Stillwater Area Public Schools administrators presented a plan to realign elementary specialist time—moving science to a specialist model and embedding art/media standards in literacy—to provide the additional minutes required by new literacy curriculum and improve consistency across elementary classrooms.
District elementary leaders presented a proposal to the Stillwater Area Public Schools Board to change the elementary specialist schedule so teachers have more daily time for the new literacy curriculum. Caitlin (executive director) and building principals said the change responds to curriculum adoptions that require more literacy instructional minutes.
What the proposal would do: administrators said the district needs an additional 40 minutes of daily literacy instruction (current elementary literacy minutes reported at about 80; several presenters said new literacy expectations require 120 minutes, and next year the…
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