Administrators from the East Penn School District attended a presentation regarding suggested curriculum modifications for the math and English programs in order to modernize standards and address post-COVID difficulties.
.png)
66% of district students in grades 3–8 who took the 2023 PSSA exam achieved proficiency in English language arts, and 49.6% in math. It is anticipated that the curriculum revisions will be formally adopted at a future meeting. For the last two years, the district has been subject to two state-directed targeted support and improvement notices for the economically disadvantaged students at Lower Macungie Middle School and the disabled students at Emmaus High School.
According to presenters, the district is noticing an increase in kids who require more time to learn how to read and write since the COVID-19 pandemic. You can view the East Penn School District's current course curricula here. Presenters claim that in Fall 2022, staff members teaching math in grades K–8 began doing a "root cause analysis" of the academic difficulties that pupils were facing at the time.
In an effort to realign the curriculum with state standards and examinations, the instructors who were presenting claimed they considered input from other educators in the district. Looking at research and studies that have examined the content in contexts different than our own is something that we particularly value when selecting curriculum materials, according to Murphy. Consequently, a pilot course is suggested for the upcoming school year for kids in the fifth and sixth grades. kids will be enrolled in the course based on performance statistics. Known as "Course 1-2," it distills material in order to get ready for a proposed seventh-grade Algebra 1 and eighth-grade 2-3 course.
If the non-accelerated course is required, students will have the chance to retake Course 2 in the seventh grade and enroll in Course 3 in the eighth grade. Teachers' primary source for curricular information will be the i-Ready Classroom Mathematics curriculum package. It admits that "more pupils than ever" are reading below grade level in the wake of COVID-19.
Refocusing and changing the curriculum are nothing new in the modern era. Members of the school board controversially began to phase away the "general preparatory" level of English curriculum instruction in late 2022.
Search Real Estate Properties near East Penn School District