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District outlines early‑literacy team work; textbook adoption for health and social studies set to begin
Summary
The superintendent introduced an elementary literacy team led by instructional coach Crystal Plickett and said the district will begin adopting health and social studies textbooks next month; staff emphasized curriculum alignment and invited public review of materials.
The superintendent presented the elementary literacy team as a district guiding coalition working to raise early‑reading proficiency and called out instructional coach Crystal Plickett and school admin team members (Lisa, Nick Over, Emily Ledbetter, Jen Norton). "Crystal Plickett is our instructional coach," the superintendent said while describing 18 months of focused professional development tied to a district 'literacy playbook.'
Staff described two years of active curriculum alignment to ensure reading and writing units match and to increase student engagement, citing classroom transformations and unit examples such as natural disasters. District leaders also announced textbook adoption for health and social studies will begin next month and that sample materials will be on display in the boardroom for review; staff clarified that "the state has set the standards, and we are just choosing the textbooks to present those standards."
