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Berkeley Heights math department proposes $17,500 professional-development plan to rebuild trust and consistency
Summary
Acting Superintendent Nixon hosted a 6–12 mathematics update in which Dr. Kelly Curtis and Alyssa Rush outlined a multi‑year professional development plan focused on rebuilding trust, balancing technology with direct instruction and improving small‑group interventions; year‑one costs total $17,500 and the district may tap Title II funds.
Dr. Kelly Curtis and Alyssa Rush presented a plan to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education to address parental and teacher concerns about secondary mathematics instruction and to rebuild trust in the district’s math program.
Curtis told the board the review drew on feedback from parents, teachers, PTO representatives, administrators and state assessment reports, and that the central themes were a need to repair relationships, balance instructional technology with teacher-led instruction and strengthen collective teacher efficacy. "A lot of the feedback...has had an expression of a loss of faith in the instructional program in mathematics," Curtis said.
The proposal centers on year‑one professional development delivered by a private consulting firm: two full‑day, in‑person trainings at the start of the school year, a parent‑facing "parent university" during the February PD day, five…
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