Board reviews teaching-and-learning findings from equity audit; district reports steps to implement Hopkins Learning Framework

The Hopkins Public School Board received an update April 8 on the teaching-and-learning findings from an equity audit conducted during the pandemic and heard district leaders describe multi-year steps taken to address the auditors’ recommendations.

Assistant Director and teaching-and-learning lead Doctor Ertle summarized the timeline and follow-up work since the audit: creation of a Hopkins Learning Framework (a coherent districtwide instructional approach), research and development of a schoolwide enrichment model, and several hires to shore up multilingual and literacy coordination. “The equity audit was presented in September of 2021,” Ertle said, and the district has since aligned staffing and programming to address the audit’s calls for clearer curriculum maps, culturally pluralized curriculum and…