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District committee recommends Really Great Reading paired with Arts & Letters; board to consider adoption at voting meeting
Summary
After a year‑long pilot, the district review committee recommended adopting Really Great Reading together with Arts & Letters for elementary ELA. The committee proposed a six‑year adoption and a professional‑development schedule; the board agreed to advance the adoption to a voting meeting for a formal decision. Cost estimates were presented (implementation‑year materials and PD and multi‑year commitments).
A district review committee recommended that Upper Darby adopt a combined elementary English language arts program — Really Great Reading paired with Arts & Letters — following a year‑long pilot of two candidate programs.
“ The committee's recommendation is for Really Great Reading with Arts and Letters,” Ms. O'Neil said, summarizing the pilot results. The district ran a pilot involving 44 volunteer teachers from across the 10 elementary schools and evaluated…
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