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Subcommittee approves recommendation to adopt Carnegie 'Lenses on Literature' for 9–12 ELA
Summary
The Brockton School Committee curriculum subcommittee voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a recommendation to adopt Carnegie Learning’s Lenses on Literature as the district’s HQIM for grades 9–12 ELA and forwarded the recommendation to the full School Committee.
BROCKTON, Mass. — The Brockton School Committee curriculum subcommittee voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a recommendation to adopt Carnegie Learning’s Lenses on Literature as the district’s high-quality instructional material (HQIM) for grades 9–12 English language arts and to advance the adoption to the full School Committee for final approval.
The recommendation, presented by district academic staff and pilot teachers, responds to lower-than-state-average ELA results and persistent achievement gaps among students with disabilities and multilingual learners. Michelle Connors, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning (grades 6–12), told the subcommittee that adopting an HQIM is part of Brockton’s memorandum of understanding with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and the district’s Student Opportunity Act commitments. “After going through this process, our recommendation is to adopt Carnegie Lenses on Literature,” Connors…
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