Sharon schools recommend CKLA after multi‑month elementary ELA pilot

Sharon Public Schools officials recommended adopting Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) as the district’s elementary English language arts curriculum following a multi‑year review and fall 2024 pilot, administrators said Thursday.

District leaders told the School Committee they chose CKLA after a committee of teachers and administrators piloted three programs—CKLA, Wit & Wisdom and MyView—collected classroom, family and student feedback and visited neighboring districts using the two finalist programs. Administrators said CKLA scored higher across user‑experience, pacing, and engagement metrics and that the program meets state curriculum standards and contains supports for students with disabilities and English learners.

The presentation traced the review to a 2017 curriculum adoption and three goals the district set for new materials: alignment to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, use of empirically validated reading instruction (including…