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William Penn SD to pilot three ELA curricula and an AI reading intervention in 2025-26
Summary
The Education Committee heard that year-long English/language arts pilots will run across elementary and secondary grades next school year with HMH, McGraw Hill and Savvas; the district also will pilot an AI intervention called Amira. Final purchasing decisions will follow midyear assessment comparisons.
Miss Tockely, a district curriculum staff member, told the William Penn School District Education Committee on May 14 that the district will run year-long English/language arts pilots in the 2025-26 school year with three vendors and an AI intervention.
"We are going to talk about the instructional ELA instructional pilots that we will begin in the fall of 20 25, and they will be year long pilots for elementary and some secondary," Miss Tockely said. She listed Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), Savvas and McGraw Hill as the vendors to be piloted and described grade- and school-level placements.
The pilots and placements named by Miss Tockely include: East Lansdowne Elementary, kindergarten through fifth grade, piloting HMH Into Reading with the Amira AI intervention; Penwood Ninth Grade Academy piloting…
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