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Mill Creek committee moves Savvas My World Interactive for grades 6–8 to April board meeting
Summary
Curriculum staff presented a multi-vendor pilot that led to a recommendation to adopt Savvas My World Interactive as the district’s sixth- through eighth-grade social studies resource; teachers cited online interactive features, multilingual supports and a college-career-civic framework as reasons to prefer it.
Mill Creek Township School District curriculum staff recommended that the district adopt Savvas My World Interactive for sixth- through eighth-grade social studies and the Instruction and Student Services Committee voted to forward the recommendation to the full school board for final action.
The recommendation was presented April 7 by a curriculum staff member who said the district’s current middle‑school social studies resource is “extremely outdated” and that the department piloted four vendors — HMH, McGraw Hill, Savvas and History Alive — before selecting Savvas based on teacher feedback and online features. The presenter said…
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