Avon Grove pauses health curriculum rewrite as district shifts to new STeELS science standards

Avon Grove School District officials said they will pause planned updates to the district'ads health curriculum after the Pennsylvania Department of Education announced a statewide review and upcoming changes to health standards. At the same meeting, Dr. Berardi, the district'as supervisor overseeing science and related curriculum work, gave a progress report on implementing the new science, technology, engineering and environmental literacy and sustainability (STeELS) standards and the district'as schedule for classroom rollout and assessments.

The district stopped short of completing local health-standard writing because PDE has started a formal review of health standards that were last updated in 2002. District staff told the committee that pausing local writing will avoid duplicative work and ensure any locally written materials align…