This week, school districts are meeting and what do you know? The Amphitheater Unified School District will be talking math and science curriculum.
School board agendas are typically devoted to policies (usually changes forced by the Arizona Legislature), structured to discuss mundane matters like payrolls or what are the new charges for school facilities. So it’s good to see a school board take a deep dive into what is being taught.
Gotta warn you, though. This isn’t a Grisham read. There are no zombies. Some district parents can breathe a big sigh of relief that Jackie Robinson is not so much as mentioned.
Amphi teachers have updated curriculum in Math and STEM/Science fields at elementary and secondary schools. So they established systemic approaches to this left-brained curricula.
Elementary math programs are designed to help students meet “benchmark” and “mastery”…
