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District 21 updates board on first-year rollout of Amplified/Desmos elementary math curriculum
Summary
Director of teaching and learning Carolyn Drove told the board Dec. 11 that the district has completed initial training and classroom support for the new Amplified/Desmos elementary math curriculum, reporting a teacher survey average of 6.8 and identifying language supports and early grades on-ramping as key challenges.
Carolyn Drove, District 21’s director of teaching and learning for math, gave a detailed update Dec. 11 on the first full-year implementation of the Amplified/Desmos elementary math curriculum.
Drove described classroom practices such as daily number talks intended to build number sense and explained that the district ran an extensive summer and fall professional-development program. “We offered altogether about 13 different sessions, grade level specific sessions, in June, July, and August,” she said, and reported that “about 170 teachers” participated in the summer sessions. Staff have also modeled or co-taught roughly “about a…
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