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Boyertown Area SD outlines curriculum review, MTSS timeline and requests additional intervention teachers
Summary
Boyertown Area SD’s director of teaching and learning told the Education & Student Services Committee the district must adopt an evidence-based ELA curriculum under recent school code updates, implement K–3 screening three times annually and consider adding multiple intervention teachers across a multi-year budget plan to meet a 2029–30 MTSS goal.
Stephanie Petrie, director of the Office of Teaching and Learning for Boyertown Area SD, told the committee during a Jan. committee meeting that the district’s six-year curriculum review cycle is designed to stagger resource adoptions, emphasize data-driven decisions and limit large simultaneous purchases.
Petrie said recent updates to the school code require local education agencies to report current ELA and reading resources to the state, adopt an evidence-based reading curriculum in the 2027–28 school year, identify a lead educator for implementation, provide PDE-approved structured literacy professional learning and complete that learning by 2028–29. “This current school year, all LEA school districts need to report to the state about what current resources we are using for ELA or reading instruction to the department of ed,” Petrie said.
The presentation covered the district’s current assessment tools and how they will inform curriculum and intervention decisions. Petrie…
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