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Monongalia County Schools selects new social-studies materials for grades 6–12

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Becky Berry, Monongalia County Schools' social-studies specialist, said the district completed a multi-school review and selected new 6–12 social-studies instructional materials tied to revised West Virginia standards and expanded online resources.

Monongalia County Schools has selected new social-studies instructional materials for grades 6–12, Becky Berry, the district’s social-studies specialist, said on the district podcast Motivation and Momentum.

Berry said the adoption follows a multi-school committee review that combined teachers’ “wish list” with revised West Virginia content standards and a scoring rubric the committee used to evaluate publishers’ materials. "We married those wishes with our standards and came up with a a scoring rubric," she said.

The selection ends a seven-year interval between textbook…

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