Tomorrow night, 5 January, at 7:00 PM, is a Board of Education work session at which the Board will be conducting the first reading of Monitoring Report E-003, Mathematics for school year 2010-2011. A copy of the document can be found at:
Reiterating the recommendation made during the budget review, the administration again wants to stick to the schedule to do a math curriculum review in 2014:
“The recommendation to the Board of Education will be to adopt Connecticut’s Common Core Math Standards at the next scheduled mathematics curriculum review. We understand that the Common Core Standards represent the state curriculum document and that Greenwich may add grade level objectives to better frame the3 (sic) district’s definition of mathematically proficient.”
You know my view: any delay will place our children at a disadvantage.
While the Monitoring Report does provide some useful data and a few insights, the parts I focused on (elementary school grades) contained data errors and misleading assertions. The action items, meant to address the Management Issues and set the tone for improvements, were nebulous at best or lacking altogether.
And if you are thinking that the actions items would be contained in the Strategic Improvement Plans for each elementary school, just try to find the word Math in any of these plans (at least what is posted on the internet). Five of the schools haven’t even bothered to post their SIP!
But hey, it is only the first reading. Maybe they will revise it to be a useful document. What are the odds of that?
Happy New Year
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