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What’s up for the new school year? subjects. Last year, trustees focused much of their attention on reviewing the English LanThe school year is in full guage Arts curriculum, to make swing, and for students and sure that it conformed to existteachers in the Rockville Centre ing standards. “This year we’d like to look school district, that means a fresh start — new faces, class- at math as our goal — but that doesn’t mean ELA goes away,” rooms and courses. Gaven said. “We For the district’s s t i l l h ave m o r e central administrawork to do. We have tion and Board of units to create with Education, on the English Language other hand, it’s time Arts.” to prepare for the In addition to the year ahead. math curriculum, At the first board the district will conmeeting of the year tinue to design and on Sept. 7, Superindevelop new ELA tendent Matt Gaven units across differsaid that he had ent grade levels. m e t w i t h b o a rd The second goal members over the MATThEw GAvEN is a continuation of summer break to Superintendent, the school board’s draft five key objecRockville Centre discussion of Multitives that they hope schools Tiered Support Serto accomplish this vice. In May, a comyear. “Our goal for this year is to mittee composed of administrabuild upon some of the work we tors, faculty members and serdid last year,” Gaven said. “It’s vice providers from all seven really important that we don’t schools in the district created a just do five new things every framework for a new approach single year and throw out the to academic support programs. In the coming months, trustees stuff we did the year before.” The first goal is for the board will discuss ways to design and to establish a five-year curricu- implement a progress-monitorlum-review cycle for all major Continued on page 12
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