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Tea Area adopts Savvas MyView literacy for K-12 after multi-year review
Summary
After a year-long review process, the Tea Area board endorsed the district's recommendation to adopt the MyView literacy curriculum from Savvas for K-12, citing standards alignment, embedded phonics and digital assessment tools including an AI-assisted writing-feedback feature for secondary grades.
The Tea Area School District board heard a staff report and accepted the district's recommendation to adopt the MyView literacy curriculum from Savvas for kindergarten through 12th grade.
Staff described a multi-stage review that began with elementary teachers creating a local rubric last spring, using EdReports as an additional evaluation tool, and inviting vendors to present to teacher committees. Elementary teams reviewed five curriculum options; secondary teams reviewed three. Teachers piloted materials, scored samples against the district rubric and reached consensus on MyView.
A staff presenter summarized the district's rationale: MyView is standards-aligned, includes exit tickets and quick checks designed to provide faster formative data to inform instruction, and integrates phonics instruction with story and fluency work. The presenter also said the product includes an automated writing-feedback tool at the secondary level, which staff described as an "AI grading tool" that gives students iterative feedback during the writing process and provides initial scoring for teachers to review.
Junior kindergarten will continue with the district's existing early-literacy materials, and kindergarten will phase in MyView in the second quarter with an initial focus on handwriting and phonics. Staff said special education will continue to use the district's current targeted phonics supports, and English Learner services will continue established phonics instruction where needed.
Students participated in the review process: three high-school students provided feedback during secondary curriculum presentations but did not take part in final voting, staff said.
Why it matters: adopting a single K-12 literacy platform is intended to create vertical alignment across grades, provide more regular formative assessment data, and supply tools intended to mirror expected accountability assessments in coming years.
Provenance: the curriculum report and adoption discussion occurred during the administrative report portion of the meeting (see transcript excerpts).
