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District staff recommends Houghton Mifflin Harcourt K–8 ELA curriculum to unify instruction
Summary
District curriculum staff recommended the school board approve adoption of HMH’s K–8 English language arts materials to replace teacher-created frameworks, citing gaps in writing instruction and inconsistent bilingual/dual-language materials; funding would come from existing grants.
Tracy Griffiths, district curriculum staff, recommended that the Beach Park CCSD 3 school board move forward with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s (HMH) K–8 English language arts curriculum, saying the program would provide continuity across grades and matching materials for bilingual classrooms.
Griffiths told the board that the district’s current ELA materials are largely teacher-created units and assessments, supplemented by aging Fountas & Pinnell resources and a mix of other classroom texts. “We are lacking rigorous writing lessons, and the alignment from K through 8 is missing,” she said, adding that the district’s frameworks were created about six years ago and have been revised only incrementally.
The recommendation, Griffiths said, follows a year in which the district piloted i-Ready…
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